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18 essential Hadoop tools for crunching big data

posted onDecember 6, 2013
by l33tdawg

Hadoop has grown to stand for so much more than a smallish stack of code for spreading work to a group of computers. This core proved to be so useful that a large collection of projects now orbits around it. Some offer data housekeeping, others monitor progress, and some deliver sophisticated data storage.

The Hadoop community is fast evolving to include businesses that offer support, rent time on managed clusters, build sophisticated enhancements to the open source core, or add their own tools to the mix.

IBM spills more about Hadoop strategy with new PureData System

posted onApril 3, 2013
by l33tdawg

IBM has already been investing in Hadoop-based projects for a considerable time now, and the tech giant has a new open source-based platform to add to its big data portfolio today.

Even after a few short months, Hadoop has already proven to be one of the biggest hot topics in enterprise technology this year.