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Next week we’ll be heading down to Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2014. We’re eager to meet the Big Data community and attend AWS sessions. There are quite a few of...

While Hadoop has proved its power for scalable storage and processing of Big Data, it may not be enterprise-ready when it comes to security. Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR address this...

Hadoop YARN may be the gun that hangs on the wall in the first act and kills MapReduce in the last—Google Trends clearly shows that interest in Hadoop is still...

These days, there is a renaissance of Hadoop-based Big Data projects: Impala, Spark, Storm, Flink and HBase as well as several SQL-on-Hadoop tools. Most of these projects are still in...

YARN's promise was big and exciting, but did it deliver? Now that we’ve spent a year with the baby elephant, we're happy to announce YARN Week: a three post series...

IBM joined the cloud computing market when it bought SoftLayer in 2013. One of the services that it provides is cloud-based storage, just like Amazon S3 and Rackspace. You can...

Amazon is not alone in the cloud: Rackspace, a cloud computing company that was established back in 1998 in Texas, is one of its major competitors. It also founded OpenStack,...

Let’s say that you’re doing some marketing for a Big Data startup. As part of your campaign, you want to find the most influential tweeters who talk about Hadoop and...

Screencast on how to connect Amazon S3 with Xplenty.

How do you integrate data from Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) with data from other sources such as S3, Redshift, or even MongoDB? The answer is Xplenty. Our data integration...