The idea of gaining knowledge through specialised analysis of mass data started with data collection in the 1960s, and has steadily increased both in the amount of data processed and the ...

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.

As the quantity of data collected by businesses continues to expand, new forms of data management are developing to identify commercial opportunities, and big data analysis is becoming a core business ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

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 ...

At the center of the new big data movement is the Hadoop framework, which provides an efficient file system and related ecosystem of solutions to store and analyze big datasets. The Hadoop ecosystem ...

Chevron hopes to reduce the cost of sending deepwater drillships out into the ocean by doing a better job of processing the vast amounts of data that can help identify reservoirs of oil, using open ...

Hadoop is not what it used to be, and we mean this in a good way. If we were to speak in hype cycle terms, we would say sometime in the past few years Hadoop exited the peak of inflated expectations ...