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Today marks the 10th birthday of sorts for Apache Hadoop, as the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo on Jan. 28, 2006. Since then, it has gone on to spawn the "Big Data" craze and ...

When Hadoop was originally conceived, it was all about sharing and as a result, security was not built in. But in today’s enterprise, Big Data represents the company’s jewels–assets that must be ...

Cloudera challenges enterprises to ask bigger questions, and why not? This is the age of Big Data, after all. But up until now users in highly regulated industries like finance, healthcare and ...