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Posted in Big Data on April 2nd, 2014 by Banbanlihttp://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/about/what-is-hadoop.html
What is Hadoop?
Make Big Data the Lifeblood of Your Enterprise
With data growing so rapidly and the unstructured variety accounting for 90% of it today, the time has come for you to re-evaluate your approach to data storage, management, and analytics.
Legacy systems, while fine for certain workloads, simply were not engineered with the needs of Big Data in mind, and are far too expensive for today’s largest data sets. Instead, these systems should now complement the use of Apache Hadoop – letting you optimize data management by putting the right Big Data workloads in the right systems.
In fact, the need for Hadoop is no longer a question — the only question now is how to take advantage of it best, and the enterprise-proven answer is: “with Cloudera.” Read more »