Hadoop is an open source solution from Apache for managing and analyzing Big Data. Its scale-out architecture enables analyzing large volumes of data to find key business insights. Enterprises are turning to Hadoop for its agility and flexibility in data analysis. Hadoop enables enterprises make sense of varieties of data - structured to unstructured - and ask insight questions they were not able to do with traditional tools.

However Hadoop's Distributed File System (HDFS) has a weakness that makes it unattractive to enterprise datacenters. HDFS's meta data server, NameNode, is a single point of failure. When NameNode fails, applications lose access to data stored in many different DataNodes. In a long running analytical application a single failure can prevent enterprises from getting timely business insights.

Symantec's recommendation is to completely eliminate this flaw with a solution we are working on for...