I gave an introductory talk on Hadoop yesterday at the Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas. During the talk, I discussed how Hadoop Streaming, a utility which allows arbitrary executables to ...

At the turn of the century, a revolution took place on the infant World Wide Web that transformed static pages into interactive, collaborative portals, spawning the social media era that permeates ...

Hadoop is the most significant concrete technology behind the so called “Big Data” revolution. Hadoop combines an economical model for storing massive quantities of data – the Hadoop Distributed File ...