Facebook deployed Raid in large Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) clusters last year, to increase capacity by tens of petabytes, as well as to reduce data replication. But the engineering team ...

Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first ...

Google this week announced a Google Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop aiming to simplify Big Data analysis on its cloud platform by eliminating the need to use the oft-maligned Hadoop Distributed ...