Hortonworks Inc. and Concurrent Inc. announced this week they are partnering to make Hadoop development easier and quicker by combining the former's data platform with the latter's Cascading ...

MapReduce developers face a steep learning curve when first deploying and configuring a Hadoop cluster and later when verifying program correctness. Compounded by long execution times (measured in ...

IT professionals are scrambling to get trained and certified in what’s expected to be the hottest new high-tech skill for 2012: Hadoop. Apache Hadoop is open source data management software for ...