What's Hot In Big Data? The 2013 O'Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference is under way in New York, where just about every major player in the big data arena is showing off their latest technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 16 — FICO, a leading predictive analytics and decision management software company, today announced that it has acquired Big Data analytics technology from Karmasphere, Inc. of ...

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.

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Karmasphere, a Big Data Intelligence company, and Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, today announced they ...

In the big data battle for architectural supremacy, the cloud is clearly winning and Hadoop is clearly losing. Customers are shying away from investing in monolithic Hadoop clusters in favor of more ...

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

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 ...