Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when taking the temperature of the Hadoop project and finding out the latest trends and advancements in the world of distributed computing was a relatively easy ...

In this whitepaper, Yahoo engineers Konstantin Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, and Robert Chansle look at HDFS, the file system component of Hadoop. While the interface to HDFS is patterned ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

Google this week announced a Google Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop aiming to simplify Big Data analysis on its cloud platform by eliminating the need to use the oft-maligned Hadoop Distributed ...

Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. The multi-petabyte storage racks nearly overflowing with unstructured and semi-structured data that are being built by hyperscalers, ...