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Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud-computing service that uses Hadoop, an open-source software framework, to crunch large amounts of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is ...

This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines. A correction has been made to this story. See details below. Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a ...

Amazon.com started its cloud computing business with the basic storage (S3) and computing functions (EC2). But it's been slowly adding new products to the mix. The latest: Amazon Elastic MapReduce, ...

Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses ...

Have you got a few hundred gigabytes of data that need processing? Perhaps a dump of radio telescope data that could use some combing through by a squad of processors running Fourier transforms? Or ...

Amazon Web Services hopes to entice more Hadoop users to its Elastic MapReduce service with new virtual servers, one of which has 262GB of memory and 6.4TB of storage for big-data analytics. On ...

Amazon Web Services hopes to entice more Hadoop users to its Elastic MapReduce service with new virtual servers, one of which has 262GB of memory and 6.4TB of storage for big-data analytics. On ...

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Nov. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Syncsort, a global leader in high-performance Big Data integration software, today announced the availability of Syncsort Ironcluster (formerly DMX-h ...

In this blog post, Rinivasan Sundara Ragan takes a look at how the value of Cloud computing to the automotive enterprise is its ability to perform processing of large amounts of information using ...

Gazzang, a provider of data security solutions, has released Gazzang CloudEncrypt, offering data encryption and key management at every stage of the Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) data lifecycle. The ...

Pepperdata unveiled a new offering that enables customers of Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) to gain granular visibility into their clusters’ run time performance. Even after an Amazon EMR cluster has ...