The floods that devastated the hard disk industry in Thailand are now half a year old, and the prices per terabyte are finally dropping once again. That means data will start piling up and people ...

EMC today announced a comprehensive strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software as an enterprise-ready tool for Big Data. EMC introduced the world's ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced the next evolution of big data analytics ...

Hadoop was first conceived as a web search engine for Yahoo!, whose developers were inspired by Google’s now-well known MapReduce paper. It has become the cornerstone of a thriving big data ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

With the increasing amount of data in companies today, there is an opportunity to extract high value from it inside and outside of the organization. In fact, Forrester Research estimates that firms ...

Storage technology has evolved and matured to the point where it has started to approach commodity status in many data centers. Nevertheless, today’s enterprises are faced with evolving needs that can ...

Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning “Big Data” market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop ...

Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As a result, there’s a lot of mythology around big data. Those myths can ...

Back in the early 1990s, you would sometimes hear this gag: “Two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” Although wildly inaccurate, this ...