Cloudera Hit with $240 Million Judgement Over Erasure Coding

A jury in a Texas federal court last week awarded StreamScale $240 million in a patent infringement lawsuit it filed against Cloudera over erasure coding technology. Cloudera says it intends to appeal the decision. St Read more…

How Erasure Coding Changes Hadoop Storage Economics

The introduction of erasure coding with Hadoop 3.0 will allow users to cram up to 50% more data into the same cluster. That's great news for users who are struggling to store all their data. However, that storage boost c Read more…

Hadoop 3.0 Likely to Arrive Before Christmas

It's looking like big data developers will get an early holiday present as work on Hadoop version 3.0 nears completion. And while Hadoop 3.0 brings compelling new features, including a 50% increase in capacity and upward Read more…

Committers Talk Hadoop 3 at Apache Big Data

The upcoming delivery of Apache Hadoop 3 later this year will bring big changes to how customers store and process data on clusters. Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair of Hadoop project com Read more…

Hadoop 3 Poised to Boost Storage Capacity, Resilience with Erasure Coding

The next major version of Apache Hadoop could effectively double storage capacity while increasing data resiliency by 50 percent through the addition of erasure coding, according to a presentation at the Apache Big Data Read more…