In Focus: Hadoop

MapR Technologies, which offers a Converged Data Platform that integrates analytics with operational processes in real time, announced $56 million ...

Shares in Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) rose over 20% on their first day of trading to close at $18.09 and giving it ...

Cask Data, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, raised $20 million in Series B funding for its enterprise-class Apache ...

Altiscale is updating its Big Data-as-a-Service with an expanded Spark-as-a-Service offering that supports all major versions of Apache Spark.  The ...

UNIFi Software, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, raised $10 million in Series A funding for its enterprise data ...

The number of standalone deployments of Spark eclipses those on YARN as more users run Spark independent of Hadoop, according ...

Google introduced new capabilities for managing clusters of Hadoop and Spark. Google Cloud Dataproc, which is now in beta,  is ...

Hortonworks, which specializes in Open Enterprise Hadoop, reported Q2 revenue of $30.7 million, an increase of 154 percent over the ...

MapR Technologies, a start-up based in San Jose, California, reported more than 100% growth in bookings and billings during Q2 ...

IBM is putting its weight behind Apache Spark, which is an open source engine for large-scale data processing and compatible ...

Cloudera and Intel have been able to achieve a 2.5X improvement in encryption off-load performance, enabling an entire Hadoop data ...

Hortonworks, which offers enterprise Apache Hadoop solutions, agreed to acquire SequenceIQ, an open source provider of rapid deployment tools for ...

Shares in Hortonworks, which offers enterprise Apache Hadoop solutions, soared on Friday from an IPO price of $16.00 to close ...