The number of production Hadoop clusters is growing, but far too often, that means the number of dedicated clusters just for running it is expanding as well. This means a lot of extra management, ...

I've been involved with cluster computing ever since DEC introduced VAXcluster in 1984. In those days, a three node VAXcluster cost about $1 million. Today you can build a much more powerful cluster ...

This article is part of the Five Essential Strategies for Successful HPC Clusters series which was written to help managers, administrators, and users deploy and operate successful HPC clusters, ...

Pepperdata, a company that’s built a platform for managing and fine-tuning Hadoop cluster performance, announced a $15M Series B funding round today. The round was led by new investors Wing Venture ...

A new company with a cool name, Galactic Exchange, came out of stealth today with a great idea. It claims it can spin up a Hadoop cluster for you in five minutes, ready to go. That’s no small feat if ...

Getting insights out of big data is typically neither quick nor easy, but Google is aiming to change all that with a new, managed service for Hadoop and Spark. Cloud Dataproc, which the search giant ...

The computational capability of modern supercomputers, matched with the data handling abilities of the Hadoop framework, when done efficiently, creates a best of both worlds opportunity. This pairing ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When we deployed the first production Hadoop cluster in 2006, we were ...

Sometimes a company builds a tool for its own internal use that suddenly becomes valuable outside the organization and wham, just like that you have a valuable side project. This was the case the ...

Stealthy startup Galactic Exchange Inc. burst out of the shadows this weekend touting a new product that’s able to spin up an Hadoop or Spark cluster, ready to go, in just five minutes. By doing so, ...

WANdisco Plc. has just announced the release of its new WANdisco Fusion tool, designed to distribute large datasets across multiple Hadoop clusters while keeping them in sync and up to date. WANdisco ...

Many organizations use Hadoop to gain competitive advantage, but because of the very nature of distributed systems, there are inherent performance limitations that even the most advanced Hadoop users ...