Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) vendor Altiscale is moving up the stack with a new service called Altiscale Insight Cloud. The offering sits atop Altiscale Data Cloud, the company's existing service that ...

Elephants, war rooms and 30 petabytes – this is what it takes to keep Facebook’s data in check according to one of its most recent blog posts. After building out its new data center in Prineville, ...

Everyone tends to focus on the “big” in Big Data, so much so that it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that Hadoop is really about data. Let’s regroup for a minute and really look at what’s going on ...