Publicly available use cases for big data and Hadoop are often thin on the ground. We take a look at some examples at Jaguar Land Rover, Zurich Insurance and the Home Office. Here at diginomica we ...

When Morgan tried to do some portfolio analysis 18 months ago it found that traditional databases and grid computing just wouldn’t scale to the very large volumes of data that its data scientists ...

When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a skeptical ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

It has been nearly six years since I attended my first Hadoop World conference in 2009, and, oh my, how the platform has progressed. What I'm most excited about, as Strata-Hadoop World 2015 approaches ...

It’s not too hard to find use cases for Hadoop, but many seem to focus on how Internet companies use Big Data. That’s great if you’re LinkedIn, CBS Interactive, or Four Square, but what about the rest ...

When enterprises interested in leveraging big data and analytics ask how to get started, they often are advised to begin with Hadoop, Apache Software’s open source data storage and processing ...

The lure of using big data for your business is a strong one, and there is no brighter lure these days than Apache Hadoop, the scalable data storage platform that lies at the heart of many big data ...

Hadoop is a hot topic right now, in the tech press and in the minds of IT organizations with large amounts of data. What is Hadoop and why should business leaders care? Loraine Lawson has broken down ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Apache Hadoop has emerged as the ...

Amazon.com has launched a hosted service designed to simplify for developers the use of the Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets in processor ...