Rob Bearden spent the better part of two years convincing Jerry Yang to spin off a small group of Yahoo ’s engineers into a separate company. He eventually succeeded in 2011, forming Hortonworks with ...

Building on the apparent success of its Cloud Foundry PaaS project, EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal today unveiled backers for a new initiative, aimed at defining a core set of Apache technologies to ...

Competition is fierce in the world of Hadoop, as a set of technology companies take freely available code and look for ways to differentiate themselves from one another. Some of that differentiation ...

The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers to build applications for the big data platform.

Talend, a provider of open source integration software, has announced the availability of Talend Open Studio for Big Data, to be released under the Apache Software License. Talend Open Studio for Big ...

During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it’s been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. The ...

Yahoo! is releasing their tested source code used to help power its sites and products, called Hadoop. Hadoop is free Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

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 venerable C programming language isn't going away, as shown by Google's open sourcing of a framework to let Big Data devs run native C code in Hadoop: MapReduce for C. "MR4C is an implementation ...