I've been involved with cluster computing ever since DEC introduced VAXcluster in 1984. In those days, a three node VAXcluster cost about $1 million. Today you can build a much more powerful cluster ...

Many organizations use Hadoop to gain competitive advantage, but because of the very nature of distributed systems, there are inherent performance limitations that even the most advanced Hadoop users ...

Over at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, Glenn K. Lockwood writes that users of the Gordon supercomputer can use the myHadoop framework to dynamically provision Hadoop clusters within a ...

If you're building a Hadoop cluster in-house and want more than the white-box experience, these hardware makers offer a gamut of Hadoop bundles Enterprise IT has long trended toward generic, white-box ...

Pepperdata is unveiling a new tool that will evaluate and assess Hadoop clusters and provide visibility into current cluster conditions. The new solution, called the Hadoop Health Check, will allow ...

High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company announced Monday. SGI Hadoop Clusters will run fully ...

Some myths are rooted in truth—and myths about Apache Hadoop, the open source software framework for very large data sets, are no exception. Yes, Hadoop runs on cheap commodity computer hardware, and ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

One of the really great things about Amazon Web Services (AWS) is that AWS makes it easy to create structures in the cloud that would be extremely tedious and time-consuming to create on-premises. For ...

Twitter has outlined plans to move a sizeable slice of its Hadoop data-processing platform to the Google Cloud to boost the resiliency of the social media site’s underlying infrastructure. The company ...