Back in the 1800s John Godfrey Saxe wrote a famous poem about six blind men trying to discover what an elephant is by touching a part and describing it. Saxe observes that, “each was partly in the ...

Big Data database provider RainStor Inc. today released a new version of its software that includes an archive application for storing data long-term on Hadoop 2.0. The company is known for managing ...

RainStor has added an archive application for Hadoop 2.0 with its latest release, RainStor 6. Organizations can deploy an archive when they have rapidly growing data that needs to be retained for ...

The new Hadoop is nothing less than the Apache Foundation’s attempt to create a whole new general framework for the way big data can be stored, mined, and processed. It ought to not only further ...

Hadoop firm Hortonworks has been busy. After its IPO in December, and the controversy of creating the Open Data Platform with the likes of Pivotal and IBM, it's just announced a new acquisition, and ...

EMC and Pivotal today announced the Data Lake Hadoop Bundle 2.0, offering a turn-key offering that combines compute, analytics and storage for customers building scale-out data lakes for predictive ...

Microsoft's cloud-based distribution of Hadoop -- which it has been developing for the past year-plus with Hortonworks -- is generally available as of October 28. Microsoft officials also are ...

The bubble of hype surrounding Apache Hadoop – that darling of big data enthusiasts such as Amazon and Yahoo – may be about to burst. According to a recent report by analyst Gartner, investment in the ...