With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

MapR has introduced native security authentication and authorization for the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. MapR’s security enhancments are aimed at enabling businesses to secure all of the ...

Seeking to help standardize and simplify Hadoop adoption, Pivotal made three key announcements. First, the company is open sourcing components of its Big Data Suite, including Pivotal HD, HAWQ, ...

As if keeping tabs on how the different workloads in a data center interact wasn’t already difficult enough, Hadoop has another layer of dependencies among its internal components. The recently-funded ...

In what appears to be a change in direction, Hortonworks has released a completely open source Hadoop distribution based on Apache Hadoop that will compete head-on with Cloudera’s CDH3. The new ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...