Big data can mean big threats to security, but BlueTalon just launched what it calls the first-ever filtering and dynamic masking capabilities for use directly on the Hadoop Distributed File ...

While reports of Hadoop’s death are premature, the notion that Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) clusters will store the majority of enterprise’s data clearly is not panning out. Hadoop, like ...

Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System ...

Other vendors have created distributed file systems for these workloads -- like the Google File System (GFS) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

Abstract—The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is designed to store very large data sets reliably, and to stream those data sets at high bandwidth to user applications. In a large cluster, ...

The proliferation of small files in distributed file systems poses significant challenges that affect both storage efficiency and operational performance. Modern systems, such as Hadoop ...

In other words, Microsoft is bringing the ability to map data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as external tables in SQL Server, and making that available as a feature to ...

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