Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Making Hadoop mainstream, and enabling customers to pull Hadoop data to use with familiar tools — these are the main goals of the Microsoft-Hortonworks partnership. Eron Kelly, General Manager of SQL ...

Another from the "democratizing Hadoop for business users" school. This time it is AtScale, a company with an impressive big data pedigree that is launching to meet this important organizational need.

Jeffrey Breen of Atmosphere Research Group presented at tk how to use Apache Hadoop with the statistical programming language R using RHadoop. Hadoop has become practically synonymous with big data ...

When Morgan tried to do some portfolio analysis 18 months ago it found that traditional databases and grid computing just wouldn’t scale to the very large volumes of data that its data scientists ...