Hadoop pros like to speak of the "0.20 branch" of the product's source code and the "0.23 branch" too. But each of those pre-release-sounding version numbers got a makeover, ...

This morning Hortonworks is announcing the general availability (GA) of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 (HDP 2.0), the next evolution of the industry’s only 100 percent open source Hadoop ...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced Apache™ Hadoop™ v1.0, the Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

That's why 2.0 is really such a big deal. It's as much a big deal for Ambari as YARN and Hadoop 2.0 were for the core itself," Murthy said. "It's becoming the de facto open-source management platform.

Today at the Strata conference in Santa Clara, MapR Technologies unveiled the latest MapR Distribution including Hadoop 2.2 with YARN for next-generation resource management. The company also ...

An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage. Tape has been around since the dawn of electronic computers and is still used for many types of long ...