It's been six years since Yahoo developer Doug Cutting created a platform for managing, storing and analyzing large volumes of data, naming it for his son's toy elephant and turning it over to the ...

If you are an investor in the field of Big Data, you must have heard the terms “Big Data” and “Hadoop” a million times. Big Data pundits use the terms interchangeably and conversations might lead you ...

RapidMiner, a big data analytics startup, purchased former partner Radoop, giving it Hadoop processing and access to the Radoop team’s Hadoop expertise. They did not share the purchase price.

Just recently, Svetlana Sicular, a research director at Gartner declared that Big Data had entered its “Trough of Disillusionment”. What was supposed to ensue was all types of negative sentiment about ...

Hortonworks, a contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache Hadoop, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SequenceIQ. SolutionIQ provides rapid deployment tools for Hadoop, to deliver a ...

The Apache Hadoop ecosystem is a busy one. Cloudera, HortonWorks, MapR, IBM, Microsoft, Datastax and Pivotal are but a few of the vendors either focusing purely on Hadoop or offering a Hadoop product ...