Second-generation Hadoop and the ecosystem grown around it are much bigger than MapReduce, which has become just another way to do Big Data analytics

OhmData founders major contributors to Apache Hadoop and HBase with companies like Google, Amazon and Cloudera on their resumes

Startup raises Series A from KPCB, launches commercial version of Linux OS that updates automatically across any number of servers

Despite Google abandoning MapReduce for its own new hyperscale analytics system, Google capital still believes in the technology and its prospects in the enterprise.

Outage attributed to directory failure which triggered a wide-scale outage caused by previously unknown flaw in code

Invests in ambitious ARM processor development project that will include a huge leap from 90nm to 28nm process technology

Two new investors join the round, which brings total size of the anti-Oracle firm's war chest to $115 million

With service down for a full work day, many customers take to a message board to vent frustrations

Says old distributed computing system does not handle petabyte-scale analytics well enough

Little-known firm that already has some of the world's largest enterprises as customers draws VC firm's second-largest investment to date