Technology professionals with strong skills in Apache Hadoop are among the hardest to find. In fact, demand for people with Hadoop expertise has skyrocketed 34% since last year, according to Wanted ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

Genome research is one of several areas where the big-data tool Hadoop is proving itself. (Stock image) An anonymous reader suggested that the headline "How agencies can put Hadoop to work" may have ...

Software stability is a key requirement for large companies, and Hortonworks is taking a big step in that direction with a new release cadence for its enterprise Hadoop software. Starting with the ...

The CEO of a new Yahoo spinoff dedicated to developing and promoting the popular Apache distributed computing platform urged adoption Wednesday of Apache's Hadoop distribution. But Cloudera, also a ...

Cloudera, a maker of data-management software for large companies, announced today that it has raised $25 million in its third round of funding to help build its Hadoop-based software architecture.

If Cloudera Desktop can win the business user segment, Cloudera will be hard to beat in the enterprise Hadoop market When Cloudera first launched the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop I wrote, “I’ve ...