In this whitepaper, Yahoo engineers Konstantin Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, and Robert Chansle look at HDFS, the file system component of Hadoop. While the interface to HDFS is patterned ...

Add Symantec to the rapidly growing list of tech vendors aiming to groom Apache Hadoop for the enterprise. The company today announced Symantec Enterprise for Hadoop, an add-on with which companies ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

EMC Isilon scale-out NAS, integrated with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) protocol, aims to provide customers with a solution for accelerating enterprise-wide deployment of Apache-based ...

Facebook deployed Raid in large Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) clusters last year, to increase capacity by tens of petabytes, as well as to reduce data replication. But the engineering team ...

Hadoop is a hot topic right now, in the tech press and in the minds of IT organizations with large amounts of data. What is Hadoop and why should business leaders care? Loraine Lawson has broken down ...

Many of the major advances in HPC have been the result of collaboration between academia and the big government labs. This has been the case with PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and its latest ...

Forget beards and sandals. The leading open-source file systems are enterprise-class big hitters, with advanced features and massive, often parallel, scalability. Sure, many are under development and ...

The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...