http://i8news.uterm.org/nyt/rss/keyword/hadoop en-us Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:33:36 GMT http://graphics.nytimes.com/images/section/NytSectionHeader.gif http://i8news.uterm.org/nyt/rss/keyword/hadoop http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/technology/for-start-ups-sorting-the-data-cloud-is-the-next-big-thing.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/26/technology/for-start-ups-sorting-the-data-cloud-is-the-next-big-thing.html SAN FRANCISCO -- The idea of big data goes something like this: In a world of ever-increasing digital connectivity, ever larger mountains of data are produced by our cellphones, computers, digital cameras, RFID readers, smart meters and GPS devices. The huge quantity of data becomes unwieldy and difficult for companies and governments to manage and By MALIA WOLLAN 2011-12-26 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/technology/21chip.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/technology/21chip.html SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Is this Silicon Valley or Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Over the last 18 months or so, this question has become tougher to answer as a flood of products with names like Voldemort, Hadoop and Cassandra have appeared on the scene. They are part of a new wave of highly specialized technology -- both software and By ASHLEE VANCE 2010-06-21 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough. But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology companies and the federal government. At the heart of this criticism is data. Researchers and workers in fields as diverse as bio-technology, astronomy and computer science will soon By ASHLEE VANCE 2009-10-12 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/technology/business-computing/17cloud.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/technology/business-computing/17cloud.html In the span of just a couple of years, Hadoop, a free software program named after a toy elephant, has taken over some of the world's biggest Web sites. It controls the top search engines and determines the ads displayed next to the results. It decides what people see on Yahoo's homepage and finds long-lost friends on Facebook. It has achieved this By ASHLEE VANCE 2009-03-17 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE7DC1331F934A25750C0A96F9C8B63 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0CE7DC1331F934A25750C0A96F9C8B63 International PAKISTAN CHIEF JUSTICE REINSTATED; One Hard Fight Comes to a Close Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry of Pakistan has been reinstated after two years of struggle, violence and oppression. Spirits and expectations were high among his supporters, who speculated on what his first move would be. Page A5 IRANIAN WITHDRAWS FROM RACE 2009-03-17 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E7D61131F936A15750C0A96E9C8B63 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E7D61131F936A15750C0A96E9C8B63 Yahoo has struck an agreement with Computational Research Laboratories, a unit of Tata Sons Ltd., to pursue research on ''cloud computing'' technologies, in which programs are run from remote data centers instead of a local computer. Yahoo said the project with the laboratory in Pune would use the world's fourth-fastest supercomputer and Apache By BLOOMBERG NEWS 2008-03-25 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/technology/18integrate.html http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/technology/18integrate.html If Microsoft succeeds in its conquest of Yahoo, what then? Microsoft would face the task of integrating the culture of Yahoo into its own. Merging corporate cultures is generally a major undertaking in any acquisition. What would set this integration apart, though, is where the culture clash is likely to occur -- in the two companies' basic By JOHN MARKOFF and MATT RICHTEL 2008-02-18 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/technology/15blue.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/technology/15blue.html I.B.M. plans to build a sizable business by bringing Google-style computing to mainstream corporate customers. The I.B.M. strategy, to be announced today, seeks to exploit the technical work and commercial interest in large data centers that can be run more efficiently, searched for information and programmed from remote locations over the By STEVE LOHR 2007-11-15