The Ubuntu/MapR package will include the MapR M3 edition of Hadoop supporting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10. The software will be available through Canonical's Ubuntu Partner Archive starting April 25, ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

The popular big data program Apache's Hadoop is difficult to use. Indeed, Datanami, an important big data publication, recently found that "the Hadoop dream of unifying data and compute in a ...

While Hadoop and its innumerable satellite projects make for a confusing market, there's more healthy unity there than may be obvious Hadoop remains the poster child for big data, yet other big data ...

Last time I wrote about Hadoop, I talked about its challenge to traditional SQL-based databases. I left off with mentioning that some SQL proponents have compared Apache Hadoop to Linux 10 years ago.

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Red Hat continues to advance its enterprise Linux distribution for the cloud, big data and scale out environments. On Thursday, the Raleigh, NC Linux company announced the release of Enterprise Linux ...

Apache Hadoop’s position as the leading light in big data is coming under threat from competing technologies such as Apache Spark, but the Linux Foundation believes there’s plenty of life left in the ...