As interest in the open source Hadoop framework for managing large amounts of data has grown, the one vendor in the data management space that has been virtually silent about Hadoop is Oracle. One of ...

Bitwise, a data management services company, announced the launch of its Hadoop Adaptor for Mainframe Data, intended for converting any mainframe data in EBCDIC format to Hadoop-friendly formats such ...

Out today, a free MapR-DB developer preview shows how the NoSQL database can now handle JSON documents natively, in a move designed to simplify and speed up big-data app development. The addition of ...

Only 20,000 or so of the big beasts still exist in the wild. They’re IBM mainframes, and despite the scorn of a legacy label, they continue to run critical processes companies simply don’t trust to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. Rackspace made some noise yesterday at the Strata + Hadoop ...

If you're a CIO, you should be taking Hadoop seriously. A technology that few people knew about five years ago is now poised to be a major player in enterprise architectures. For all the buzz around ...