Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today highlights the momentum of its global partner ecosystem that accelerates ...

Apache Hadoop didn’t disrupt the data center, the data did. Shortly after Corporate IT functions within enterprises adopted large-scale systems to manage data, the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) ...

Industrial environments such as those found within large electric and gas utilities are producing massive volumes of data in real-time that is overwhelming traditional ICT architectures. Additionally, ...

Enterprises take a platform based, turn-key solution approach to Big Data and Hadoop, thus building an ecosystem around Hadoop is a key priority to Hortonworks. “Hadoop is no longer an option; it’s a ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

SAP’s recent acquisition of Altiscale Inc., a company that offers a cloud-based version of the Hadoop open-source software for storing, processing and analyzing many different data styles, gives SAP ...

Hadoop is hard. There’s just no way around that. Setting up and running a cluster is hard, and so is developing applications that make sense of, and create value from, big data. What Hadoop really ...

NoSQL and Hadoop—two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture—have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate—especially within ...

Over at The Data Stack, Intel’s Tim Allen writes that the key to optimizing Hadoop on x86 is to tune the underlying Java so that it takes advantage of capabilities in Intel hardware. When you do that, ...