Big data was one of the hottest areas in the IT industry in 2013. The rapid growth in the volume, variety and velocity of data flowing through businesses' IT systems is growing exponentially -- and so ...

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 ...

In this special guest feature, Chandra Ambadipudi, CEO of Clairvoyant, provides a compelling tour de force through the recent history of the big data industry and how Hadoop and the cloud have made ...

Singapore-based startup, Percipient, has developed a way to sidestep a common Hadoop big data function, thereby shortening query processing time by more than 15 times. Hadoop is an open source ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. The best run DevOps teams in the world choose Perforce, that’s the claim from Perforce. The company makes this ...

Concurrent, the company providing the Cascading data workflow API, has raised a $900,000 seed round to capitalize on the newfound excitement around Hadoop. The funding came from Rembrandt Venture ...

A threat actor is targeting a common misconfiguration in Hadoop YARN and Apache Flink to try and drop Monero cyrptominers in environments running the two big data technologies. What makes the campaign ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a revolution that is changing how individuals live and work; it’s not just a technological development. There are fundamental building blocks for AI that outline its ...