One of the really great things about Amazon Web Services (AWS) is that AWS makes it easy to create structures in the cloud that would be extremely tedious and time-consuming to create on-premises. For ...

Companies embarking on significant Hadoop migrations have the opportunity to advance their data management capabilities while modernizing their data architectures with cloud platforms and services.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 19 — MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced the immediate availability of the MapR Distribution product in Amazon ...

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 ...

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 ...