Intel, a company famous for its computer processing hardware, has jumped into the Hadoop software business, asserting that it wants to spur growth of big data analytics deployments in large data centers Data Informed reported. Intel announced plans on Feb. 26 to make the third version of its distribution of Hadoop and its accompanying Intel Manager for Apache Hadoop software available globally in the second ...

In 1905, Albert Einstein derived that light was composed of particles by fitting his theory to just a handful of data points. This discovery changed our understanding of basic physics and helped usher in a new era of quantum mechanics. Today, scientists often need to interpret much larger data sets to drive discoveries. A little more than a decade ago, the first sequencing of a human genome cost $100 millio ...

 Who: You're invited to WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop Product Premier Party. Fill out the form on the right to secure your spot today.  What: Join us for complimentary beer and wine tasting with heavy appetizers and a chance to win an iPad mini. When: Wednesday, February 27 at 6:30pm - 9:00pm Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara Lafayette Room, 2nd Floor [button color="blue" link="http://go.wandisco.com/non ...

Non-Stop Platform Backed by Global Team of Worldwide Experts San Ramon, CA – February 8, 2013 - WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced it has made its WANdisco Distro (WDD) available for free download. WDD is the first fully tested, production-ready version powered by Apach ...

Introduction to Hadoop 2, with a simple tool for generating Hadoop 2 config files: Introduction to Hadoop 2 Core... fb.me/Ei16Dho9 ...

Introduction to Hadoop 2 Core Hadoop 2 consists of the distributed filesystem HDFS and the compute framework YARN. HDFS is a distributed filesystem that can be used to store anywhere from a few gigabytes to many petabytes of data. It is distributed in the sense that it utilizes a number of slave servers, ranging from 3 to a few thousand, to store and serve files from. YARN is the compute framework for Hadoo ...

Dear Members, Well, I must say that I was pretty happy last night seeing the enthusiasm among the community members about the topic of the night, “Security in a Hadoop environment”.  We had a great interactive session and all of us learned about the challenges, issues and industry practices. We promise to put together another session on the same topic with more varied participants. One of our community memb ...

The Big Data Infra for Enterprises – Making Hadoop Secure for Enterprises session was probably my 4th or 5th attendance to BigDataCloud meetup hosted by DJ and Jeeta Das. Time is luxury and if you login to meetup.com, several meetups with names that generate significant interest crop up. I am sure all agree with me. However, attending BigDataCloud meetup is time well invested. Few days ago I had spoken to J ...

Acquisition of Hadoop expertise will accelerate WANdisco’s product development in fast-growing Big Data market WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of global collaboration software to the software development industry, announced today it has completed the acquisition of Silicon Valley-based software company AltoStor. This acquisition underscores WANdisco's drive into the Big Data solutions market, forec ...