Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System (QFS).

Add Symantec to the rapidly growing list of tech vendors aiming to groom Apache Hadoop for the enterprise. The company today announced Symantec Enterprise for Hadoop, an add-on with which companies ...

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 ...

This paper provides a high-level overview of how Apache Cassandra™ can be used to replace HDFS, with no programming changes required from a developer perspective, and how a number of compelling ...

Facebook deployed Raid in large Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) clusters last year, to increase capacity by tens of petabytes, as well as to reduce data replication. But the engineering team ...

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 ...

MapR's file system was its original differentiator in the Hadoop market: unlike standard HDFS, which is optimized for reading, and supports writing to a file only once, MapR-FS fully supports the read ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

Hadoop is a hot topic right now, in the tech press and in the minds of IT organizations with large amounts of data. What is Hadoop and why should business leaders care? Loraine Lawson has broken down ...