Have you ever wondered how Google, Facebook and other Internet giants process their massive workloads? Billions of requests are served every day by the biggest players on the Internet, resulting in ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

One of the most noteworthy findings from Wikibon’s annual update to our big data market forecast was how seldom Hadoop was mentioned in vendors’ roadmaps. However, none of those really represents the ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

eSpeaks' Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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Yahoo, which has championed the open source Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform, is adding capabilities for Kerberos security and workflow management to the platform. The company on Tuesday ...

Apache's Hadoop, one of the most exciting open source projects of the decade, has reached version 1.0 designation. It's no small milestone. The open source cloud computing framework, which began with ...

Music-streaming service Spotify says shifting to Hortonworks' distribution of big-data platform Hadoop will help it advance the analytics behind personalising user services and providing data to ...

As enterprise adoption of Hadoop booms, the pool of IT personnel able to build and maintain deployments hasn’t kept pace. In May, analyst firm IDC pegged the compound annual growth rate for the Hadoop ...