Oracle is making a play for the 'big data' market - capturing, storing and analysing the vast amounts of unstructured data that businesses gather every day. At Oracle's OpenWorld event in San ...

The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

Big Data delivers knowledge capital and bottom line benefits to enterprises, re-shaping the way customer information is analyzed and consumed. With the recent launch of data centric network and ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Informatica is joining the growing ranks of vendors moving to support Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale or “big data” processing, the company announced Monday. The 9.1 version of ...

The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

IBM said it is continuing to strive to offer firms data management solutions as the amount of data generated threatens to get out of control for most companies. IT is seeking to build on its BigData ...

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 ...