In this special guest feature, Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist at DriveScale, describes how to run demanding analytics applications and/or 1000+ node Hadoop workloads on commodity servers and storage. Tom ...

Hadoop may work in many businesses, but it simply cannot handle the massive amount of data generated in industrial environments. It simply wasn’t built for it. Solving this data challenge requires a ...

No one questions that the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem can yield business-changing insights. Yet few seem willing to face up to the sorry state of big data security Given the pace at which big data software ...

When it comes to the Hadoop data platform, Hortonworks and Pivotal could scarcely have more dissimilar approaches. The former prides itself on being a non-proprietary, pure open source product; the ...