How YARN Opens Doors to Easier Programming Tools for Hadoop 2.0 Users
The emergence of YARN for the Hadoop 2.0 platform has opened the door to new tools and applications that promise to allow more companies to reap the benefits of big data in ways never before possible with outcomes possibly never ...
YARN and MapReduce 2.0 elevates big data Hadoop and scheduled processing
Are you ready to take advantage of the multi-application functionality of Hadoop with MapReduce 2.0, or as it is more affectionately known, YARN? According to Arun Murthy, a big-data architect and a co-founder of Hortonworks, YARN substantially improves the functionality ...
Big Data In 2014-6 Bold Predictions
How will big data evolve in 2014? The future is anyone's guess, of course, but we thought we'd compile a tasty holiday assortment of prognostications from executives working in the big data trenches. So without further delay, here they are ...
Big Data 2.0-the next generation of Big Data
In the last few years we have seen Big Data generate a lot of buzz along with the launch of several successful big data products. The big data ecosystem has now reached a tipping point where the basic infrastructural capabilities ...
Apache Spark for Big Analytics
by Thomas Dinsmore, Director of Product Management at Revolution Analytics
The emergence of Apache Spark is a key development for Big Analytics in 2013.  Spark, an Apache incubator project, is an open source distributed computing framework for advanced analytics in Hadoop. ...
7 Big Data Trends for 2014
As the year 2013 is almost over, it is good to have a look back at the trends that I discussed for 2013 and look forward to the Big Data trends of 2014. It can be said that 2013 was ...
Use big data to fight cybercrime
 While organizations don't always need to understand how an attack works from an in-depth technical perspective, they do need to understand how the attacks get past their defenses. A successful CISO will arm himself with analytics and learn from others' ...
Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution
Intel on Tuesday said it was getting into the software business with its own Hadoop distribution. The move is a potential blow for startups such as Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR that are offering their own distributions of Hadoop, but it’s ...
Big Data Bits Featuring Couchbase, Datawatch, Panopticon, MongoDB, Hadoop 2.x
Europe seems to be on holiday this week and in North America it’s the unofficial last week of summer. But in the world of Big Data there’s no time for reclining or relaxing. Though we can’t cover everything, here are ...