Google Hadoop customers can now run MapReduce jobs directly against data stored in the Google Cloud Storage and leave HDFS out of the big data equation as a result of a new cloud storage Hadoop ...

In the battle for big data storage supremacy, Hadoop is still in the running. It may no longer be the 800-lb gorilla, but the demonstrated scalability of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) ...

Performance has not always been a priority for object storage. Instead, object storage found its role in secondary applications, such as archiving and backup, and, although object storage is widely ...