Hortonworks and Pivotal's Open Data Platform project yields its first tangible results, but they're unlikely to dispel controversy over ODP's mission The ODP (Open Data Platform), a consortium of ...

Building on the apparent success of its Cloud Foundry PaaS project, EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal today unveiled backers for a new initiative, aimed at defining a core set of Apache technologies to ...

Cloudera has released the third version of its distributed number-crunching Hadoop product — Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop — along with a variety of other Hadoop-boosting open-source ...

Hadoop vendor MapR has raised $110 million in capital to help it keep growing in a heated enterprise Hadoop market. Most of the funding — $80 million — came in the form of venture capital from Google ...

Hortonworks today announced a major change to the way it distributes its Hadoop software. Going forward, Hortonworks plans to update “core Hadoop” components like HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN just once a ...

In the first day of Hadoop Summit 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcast live from San Jose, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, where the major topics revolved around ...

Last week, Hortonworks announced its engineers, with the help of the Apache Hadoop community, developed a new RESTful-based protocol called WebHDFS to enable a wider range of application to access the ...