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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, Glenn K. Lockwood writes that users of the Gordon supercomputer can use the myHadoop framework to dynamically provision Hadoop clusters within a ...

Pepperdata is unveiling a new tool that will evaluate and assess Hadoop clusters and provide visibility into current cluster conditions. The new solution, called the Hadoop Health Check, will allow ...

Five years ago, many bleeding edge IT shops had either implemented a Hadoop cluster for production use or at least had a cluster set aside to explore the mysteries of MapReduce and the HDFS storage ...

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If you're building a Hadoop cluster in-house and want more than the white-box experience, these hardware makers offer a gamut of Hadoop bundles Enterprise IT has long trended toward generic, white-box ...

High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company announced Monday. SGI Hadoop Clusters will run fully ...