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Why Pay for Analytics When Open Source Is ‘Free?’

The free analytics question comes up over and over again, especially as it pertains to open source analytic offerings. I don't think a day goes by when someone at a company doesn’t ask, "Why should I pay for analytics Read more…

Hadoop Alternative Is Faster and Lighter, Proponents Say

For all its benefits, Hadoop has its drawbacks. The actual movement of data can be complex, and does not lend itself to efficient execution. Discouraged with Hadoop's heaviness, an online advertising company developed an Read more…

TPC Crafts More Rigorous Hadoop Benchmark From TeraSort Test

While Moore's Law has made computing and storage capacity less expensive with each passing year, the amount of data that companies are storing and the number and sophistication of the algorithms that they want to employ Read more…

Software-Defined Storage Takes Off As Big Data Gets Bigger

The ongoing explosion of data is forcing users to adapt their storage methodologies beyond traditional file- and block-level storage. Object stores and software-defined storage mechanisms, in particular, are quickly gain Read more…

Red Hat Deal Gives Hortonworks Enterprise Clout

The strategic partnership that Hortonworks and Red Hat unveiled today is interesting on several fronts. For starters, there are the joint development projects, most notably the connector that allows Hortonworks' Hadoop distribution to talk natively to Red Hat Storage. Beyond that, the partnership with the $10-billion commercial open source software company provides a glimpse of who Hortonworks might want to be when it grows up. Read more…

Red Hat Releases Storage Plug-in to the Apache Wild

Big data may be the killer app for clouds, said Red Hat today, announcing their intention to seamlessly shepherd their considerable installed user base into a new era of computing. Read more…

Red Hat Throws Cap into Big Data Storage Arena

This week Red Hat entered the enterprise big data storage market with a new software storage appliance. The offering, which leverages both the technology from the acquisition of Gluster as well as its own Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, targets big unstructured data. Read more…