It's about time: More than 10 years after we first heard the term, "big data" has become productive. The world’s largest enterprises — Apple, Wal-Mart and countless others — run large-scale 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 ...

Hadoop has always been seen the “poster child” for Big Data, and indeed the vast majority of Big Data customers use it in at least some variation. But, recently, there have been some changes within ...

Big on Data bro Andrew Brust's recent post on the spring cleaning of Hadoop projects evidently touched a nerve, given the readership numbers that went off the charts. By now, the Apache Hadoop family ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago, two giants of the big data Hadoop era, Cloudera and Hortonworks, announced they would be merging. The announcement claimed it would be a “merger of equals.” It is fascinating to see ...

This is a guest post by Dell Software executive Guy Harrison Without doubt, “big data” is the hottest topic in enterprise IT since cloud computing came to prominence five years ago. And the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.