Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.

Big Data is confusing — and not just for business leaders. CIOs find it befuddling, too. Scott Schlesinger, vice president and head of North American Business Information Management at Capgemini, ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

Splunk says its Hunk product for Hadoop will open up big-data analytics to a wider business audience and also make life easier for developers. Hunk, which is now downloadable for a free 60-day trial, ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...