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Intel has launched its own Hadoop distribution, entering an already crowded market of major players all looking to get a piece of the big data pie. The company also announced an open-source effort to ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when taking the temperature of the Hadoop project and finding out the latest trends and advancements in the world of distributed computing was a relatively easy ...

Hadoop’s critics are quick to point out the open source framework’s lack of enterprise-readiness. Top of the list of complaints is Hadoop’s single-point-of-failure issue. In a nutshell, in any given ...

Today marks the 10th birthday of sorts for Apache Hadoop, as the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo on Jan. 28, 2006. Since then, it has gone on to spawn the "Big Data" craze and ...

VMware on Wednesday announced Project Serengeti, open source code that optimizes Hadoop for use in VMware virtualized environments. Bringing cloud-like benefits to the leading big data analytics tool ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. VMware has announced a new open-source project, dubbed ...

VMware is on the open source move again, this time launching a new project called "Serengeti" aimed at enabling enterprises to quickly "deploy, manage and scale" Hadoop in virtual and cloud ...

This is a guest post by Dell Software executive Guy Harrison Without doubt, “big data” is the hottest topic in enterprise IT since cloud computing came to prominence five years ago. And the most ...

Datacenter operating system (DCOS) maker Mesosphere and open source Big Data firm MapR have launched a project to that allows data centers to improve their multi-tasking. The Myriad project is a ...