The NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop is built on the E2660 storage array, which provides the shared-nothing storage required by HDFS. HDFS is the primary storage system used by Hadoop applications.

I've been involved with cluster computing ever since DEC introduced VAXcluster in 1984. In those days, a three node VAXcluster cost about $1 million. Today you can build a much more powerful cluster ...

Microsoft's getting into the Hadoop game, and people are skeptical. Can Microsoft really embrace open source technology? And if it can, will it end up co-opting it somehow, or will it truly play nice?

SAN RAMON, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 8, 2013) - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 3, 2014) - Dataguise®, the leading provider of Big Data security and protective intelligence solutions, today announced at Hadoop Summit the immediate availability of ...

This paper provides a high-level overview of how Apache Cassandra™ can be used to replace HDFS, with no programming changes required from a developer perspective, and how a number of compelling ...

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Good morning. The volume of data is soaring, forcing companies in many industries to deploy a level of analytic processing power that was once reserved for the likes of consumer Internet giants and ...

Recent years have seen an acceleration of cloud adoption as a next-generation platform for running big data and analytics. Likewise, Hadoop-specific vendors have been consolidating, further fueling ...