Hadoop nodes run in virtual machines as opposed to dedicated physical servers so its “easy” if you know VMware. Serengeti has a lot going for it from the standpoint of enterprise IT—like ...

That means that a Hadoop node only needs a processor, a network card, and a few hard drives, and will cost around $4,000; an RDBMS system might cost $10,000 to $14,000 per terabyte.

Hadoop is not meant to replace your current data infrastructure, only augment it. Here are examples when Hadoop makes sense, when it doesn't, and what you can expect to pay.

Decoupling Hadoop nodes from physical servers will make Hadoop components run more efficiently in virtual environments and in the cloud, one exec says. VMware's latest open source project, ...

Instead of provisioning Hadoop nodes from the admin side to run a Hadoop job alongside other HPC applications in a separate environment, there has been a great deal of work happening to bring high ...

VMware has performed some benchmarks for virtualized Hadoop and the results are interesting. ... 1 VM pinned to each NUMA node; 4 VMs per host 17408MB, 17000MB reserved, 4 vCPUs ...

Thus, the Hadoop node spends less time waiting for I/O and more time executing map/reduce instructions, leading directly to faster execution time for map/reduce tasks.

With right around 36,000 Hadoop nodes and 600 petabytes of storage across 19 clusters running everything from MapReduce, Tez, Spark, and more, it stands to reason teams behind fresh AI and machine ...

In a nutshell, in any given Hadoop cluster, a single Name Node is responsible for tracking which slave nodes are available, where in the cluster certain data resides, and which nodes have failed.

Microsoft announced an update to its Azure cloud service that adds support for developing on Azure using Node.js, among other new features and improvements Microsoft is also offering a limited previe ...