I've been hearing the term "Hadoop" everywhere. I asked my colleague David White, ARC's analytics expert, what it was and whether it was something that supply chain executives needed to know about.

Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task—managing ...

The focus of Trifacta is enabling people who know their data best (analysts & business people) to effectively explore, structure, and join together diverse data sources for a variety of business ...

While Hadoop is officially 15 years old as an Apache project, it only gained mainstream IT attention 10 years ago. Hadoop started as an open source implementation of key Google technologies used for ...

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While the term ‘big data’ may feel old to us now, the concept remains relatively new. Hadoop helped popularize and simplify this analytical use of data in 2010, and since then the technology and ...

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When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Silicon Valley investors have poured $2 billion into companies based on the data-collection software known as Hadoop. But a newer big-data program is stealing Hadoop’s thunder. The software, known as ...

The email went to Eric14. His real name is Eric Baldeschwieler, but no one calls him that. At fourteen letters, Baldeschwieler is a mouthful, and he works in a world where a name takes a backseat to ...