I've been hearing the term "Hadoop" everywhere. I asked my colleague David White, ARC's analytics expert, what it was and whether it was something that supply chain executives needed to know about.

Facing a growing mass of data with vast potential value, every week, all around the world, business executives are starting big data programs. Based on the cost and performance benefits, Hadoop is the ...

Remember how, just a decade ago, Hadoop was the cure to all the world’s large-scale enterprise IT problems? And how companies like Cloudera dominated the scene, swallowing competitors including ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

While the term ‘big data’ may feel old to us now, the concept remains relatively new. Hadoop helped popularize and simplify this analytical use of data in 2010, and since then the technology and ...

Just a decade ago, the enterprise IT push was to make Hadoop the platform for storage and analytics. At that time, cloud hesitancy was still looming for large on-prem organizations. Hadoop, no matter ...

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...

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