It would be surprising to find a Hadoop shop that builds a cluster based on the high-end 68+ core Intel Knights Landing processors—not just because of the sheer horsepower (read as “expense”) for ...

Just five years ago, the infrastructure space was awash in stories about the capabilities cooked into the Hadoop platform—something that was, even then, only a few pieces of code cobbled onto the core ...

MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI (business intelligence) software platform, covering areas such as visual data-exploration and the open-source Hadoop data-processing ...

Hortonworks unveiled a technology preview of the Hortonworks Data Platform Tuesday in an effort to recruit systems integrators, ISVs and OEMs to adopt the software. The company expects to release a ...

AtScale, the company to provide enterprises with a fast and secure self-service BI platform for Big Data, announced a significant expansion of its services, from BI on Hadoop to BI on Big Data. With ...

For all the hype surrounding the NoSQL movement, SQL remains the lingua franca for queries across both relational and other types of emerging databases. In fact, one of the fastest growing use cases ...

Hortonworks has released a preview distribution of the next generation of Apache Hadoop, one that promises to broaden the scope of the kinds of analysis that can be carried out on the data processing ...

Storage technology has evolved and matured to the point where it has started to approach commodity status in many data centers. Nevertheless, today’s enterprises are faced with evolving needs that can ...

Yahoo is discontinuing its distribution of the Hadoop platform and will instead focus on Apache Hadoop, the Hadoop Team at Yahoo said this week. Hadoop, which was built initially by Apache chairman ...