When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Cloudera, a provider of Hadoop-based software and services, and online course prvider Udacity have partnered to offer Hadoop and data science courses. The first, Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce, ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

Microsoft has announced several Windows Azure updates this week including a Hadoop distribution preview called HDInsight. Customers who need to process analytics within the open source Apache Hadoop ...

The popular big data program Apache's Hadoop is difficult to use. Indeed, Datanami, an important big data publication, recently found that "the Hadoop dream of unifying data and compute in a ...

This week, join Ruby on Rails enthusiasts for a 30-minute introduction to Hadoop. Columbia TechBreakfast takes place Wednesday morning. Drupal-lovers meet at Bertha’s in Fells Point on Wednesday ...

In this webcast, Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and O’Reilly author Tom White will provide an introduction to Hadoop/MapReduce, the open source project that allows organizations to process, ...

As the data world undergoes its Cambrian explosion phase, our data tools need to become more advanced to keep pace. Deep Learning has emerged as a key tool in the non-linear arms race of machine ...

Hadoop has forever changed the economics and dynamics of large-scale computing, and its use among enterprises looking to augment their traditional data warehouses continues to grow. During the first ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.