Indeed, Scaling Data, founded by former executives of Hadoop distributor Cloudera, recently raised $4.4 million in venture capital to develop a line of easy-to-use applications that will run on ...

At least it doesn't use it broadly. It has its own in-house version. Amazon's Hadoop framework runs on the company's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3).

Q: How do you use Hadoop at VISA? What made you think it could be the best solution for what you're trying to accomplish? Cunningham: The most important thing to remember is VISA obviously has a ...

Although most Hadoop tools are open source, Cloudera’s management modules are only available as part of Cloudera’s paid edition of Hadoop. However, the company is making available for no cost ...

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.

“Hunk gives business analytics teams using Hadoop in their stack an enormous opportunity to improve overall efficiency for everyone – the analysts can more quickly explore data and create ...

Starting with the Hortonworks Data Platform 2.4, which is now available, the company is taking a two-pronged approach to updates. Specifically, it will update core Apache Hadoop components such as ...

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.