The course covers basic principles of systems for distributed processing of big data including distributed file systems; distributed computation models such as Mapreduce, resilient distributed ...

Big data is probably one of the most misused words of the last decade. It was widely promoted, discussed and spread by business managers, technical experts, and experienced academics. Slogans like ...

The highly centralized enterprise data center is becoming a thing of the past, as organizations must embrace a more distributed model to deal with everything from content management to big data. Here ...

Today the Japanese company said it’s created a new technology that can help high-speed processing of big data in distributed storage systems, where information is stored across multiple drives.

For those of us who want to use big data systems in the real world, as opposed to designing and building and maintaining them, it’s worthwhile to know that the open source patterns for building ...

As Data Artisans co-founder Kostas Tzoumas explains to The Next Platform: “Current engines for data processing are designed to perform their best in one of two cases: when the working set fits ...

In today’s data landscape, a distributed architecture is driven by the need for real-time insights, compliance, and the scalability provided by cloud computing, with organizations increasingly ...

By Leila Meyer 11/20/13 Intel has rolled out its new Intel HPC Distribution for Apache Hadoop software, an enterprise-grade solution designed for storing and processing large data sets. The HPC ...