With the Hadoop Summit conference coming next week (June 3-5), it might be useful for all newbies to get up to speed with this exciting distributed computing technology. Below is a video presentation ...

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The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As a result, there’s a lot of mythology around big data. Those myths can ...

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It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Apache Hadoop project, the open source implementation of Google's File System (GFS) and MapReduce execution engine, turned 10 this week. The technology, ...

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