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 Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is considered a core component of Hadoop, but it’s not an essential one. Lately, IBM has been talking up the benefits of hooking Hadoop up to the General ...

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, ...

You can now find it on GitHub. The default Hadoop file system is called Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). CEO Konrad Feldman says Quantcast started using Hadoop in 2006.

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.

BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first-ever filtering and dynamic masking capabilities for use directly on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

Other vendors have created distributed file systems for these workloads -- like the Google File System (GFS) and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Microsoft has one in development, too ...

SAP is using the Hadoop distro vendor MapR's file system in its cloud storage layer, and not just for Hadoop/Big Data. Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor April 7, 2017, 9:55 a.m. PT ...

Several distributed file systems are used over the cloud because the cloud itself includes large numbers of commodity-grade servers, harnessed to deliver highly scalable and on-demand services.