Taking Hadoop to the Next Level Inovalon is another company that’s fast discovering how easy-to-use software can drive greater enterprise adoption of Hadoop.

Analysts and early users warn that companies should move slowly if they want to take advantage of the open-source Hadoop technology, noting that it requires extensive training along with analytics ...

Hadoop is getting closer to mainstream adoption, as this Q&A with Visa's technology innovation chief suggests.

Apache Hadoop has become the predominant Big Data platform for storing and analyzing data. Companies use Hadoop to get value and gain competitive differentiation from their ever-increasing wealth of ...

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 ...

Hadoop has its own set of job scheduling tools, although they work mostly for managing jobs only within the Hadoop environment, rather than for managing all the software being used in an organization.

If Hadoop has a problem, it can be expressed simply: Its power is inversely proportional to its ease-of-use. It’s hard to set up, hard to work with, and hard to get real business value out of ...

Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monday. Users of the Informatica’s business ...

About 32 percent of enterprises currently use Hadoop, and another 31 percent plan to use the technology this year, according to an August 2013 IDC study commissioned by Red Hat.