Cisco Systems officials are continuing on their push to make the tech vendor a one-stop shop for organizations that are looking for ways to make sense of the tsunami of data that is coming their way.

Introducing the Nutanix Complete Cluster's clean new look. Clusters start at four nodes, but can dynamically scale to several hundred. Elastic Provisioning meets Elastic Infrastructure. Nutanix's ...

As much as we talk about Hadoop, we should be seeing more enterprise deployments. But as Gartner recently highlighted, the promise of Hadoop and the reality remain distinctly different things. More ...

Big data is opening up new avenues of understanding and activity for companies and the people they serve. At the highest level, this movement provides a significant competitive advantage for prescient ...

Apache Hadoop is becoming the de facto infrastructure environment for pushing data across a distributed infrastructure to then later analyze with MapReduce in an effort to optimize web pages, ...

In this special guest feature, Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist at DriveScale, describes how to run demanding analytics applications and/or 1000+ node Hadoop workloads on commodity servers and storage. Tom ...

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Just five years ago, the infrastructure space was awash in stories about the capabilities cooked into the Hadoop platform—something that was, even then, only a few pieces of code cobbled onto the core ...

When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a skeptical ...

Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly provides an inclusive basic tutorial of the big data environment, including technologies, skill sets, and use cases, in “Big Data: Hadoop, Business ...

The overwhelming movement to cloud computing and big data is creating compelling efficiencies for businesses. However, this growing revolution is also introducing previously unseen levels of ...