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S3A is Hadoop's new S3 adapter that allows you to connect your Hadoop cluster to any S3 compatible object storage. Here are three advantages to using Apache Hadoop® on Object Storage vs. traditional scale-out storage, and how you can build a better data lake today.

If you're a systems engineer wondering why object storage, what is it good for, and why you would abandon an existing storage solution for an object store - Mike McWhorter has some answers for you.

Hadoop technology just turned 10, and has gained tremendous momentum. But some components of the traditional architecture are coming of age, and a new approach to Hadoop architecture is emerging.