In my last post, I explained MapReduce in terms of a hypothetical exercise: counting up all the smartphones in the Empire State Building. My idea was to have the fire wardens count up the number of ...
Scaleout Software, a provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), announced the availability of ScaleOut hServer V2, which incorporates new technology to run Hadoop MapReduce on live data. This new ...
I gave an introductory talk on Hadoop yesterday at the Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas. During the talk, I discussed how Hadoop Streaming, a utility which allows arbitrary executables to ...