This week many of the biggest stars in the Hadoop universe are showing off their latest and greatest Big Data products at this week's conference in San Jose.

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 ...

Hadoop utilizes a scale-out architecture that makes use of commodity servers configured as a cluster, where each server possesses inexpensive internal disk drives. As the Apache Project’s site states, ...

The Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop is available immediately at no additional charge to Cluster File System customers. It supports Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0 and Apache Hadoop 1.0.2.

Hadoop was first conceived as a web search engine for Yahoo!, whose developers were inspired by Google’s now-well known MapReduce paper. It has become the cornerstone of a thriving big data ...

I'm 99% sure this is the BigTop meant by the slide and not the old Microsoft BigTop. Also under the Hadoop on Azure GA item is a .Net/Common Language Runtime (CLR)/C# framework for Hadoop programming.

The 9.1 version of Informatica’s platform features a connector to the Hadoop file system (HDFS), allowing customers to move data in and out of Hadoop clusters.

The data must be put into the Hadoop file system, and then reorganized by each individual’s session. This “sessionization process,” can involve 40 or more steps.

It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.