WANdisco Plc. has just announced the release of its new WANdisco Fusion tool, designed to distribute large datasets across multiple Hadoop clusters while keeping them in sync and up to date. WANdisco ...

Cloudera has seen some pretty amazing growth for a year-old startup. Backed by an impressive list of investors and advisors and run by a team of experienced technology veterans, Cloudera commercially ...

Sometimes a company builds a tool for its own internal use that suddenly becomes valuable outside the organization and wham, just like that you have a valuable side project. This was the case the ...

This article is part of the Five Essential Strategies for Successful HPC Clusters series which was written to help managers, administrators, and users deploy and operate successful HPC clusters, ...

The number of production Hadoop clusters is growing, but far too often, that means the number of dedicated clusters just for running it is expanding as well. This means a lot of extra management, ...

A new company with a cool name, Galactic Exchange, came out of stealth today with a great idea. It claims it can spin up a Hadoop cluster for you in five minutes, ready to go. That’s no small feat if ...

Cloudera, the company behind the most widely deployed Hadoop distribution, did something surprising yesterday at Strata + Hadoop World, NYC. Instead of beckoning "old school" database and BI ...

Five years ago, many bleeding edge IT shops had either implemented a Hadoop cluster for production use or at least had a cluster set aside to explore the mysteries of MapReduce and the HDFS storage ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the world’s largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year. Facebook stores much of the data on its massive Hadoop cluster, ...