Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System (QFS).

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 ...

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 ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when taking the temperature of the Hadoop project and finding out the latest trends and advancements in the world of distributed computing was a relatively easy ...

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 ...

Seagate this week introduced a ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator that introduces the Hadoop on Lustre Connector, which allows clusters based on Hadoop and the open source Lustre file system “to ...

As the undisputed pioneer of big data, Google established most of the key technologies underlying Hadoop and many of the NoSQL databases. The Google File System (GFS) allowed clusters of commodity ...

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