An industry-supported online school provides a good grounding in the science and application of very large datasets. A virtual school, developed by a team of leading software and hardware companies, ...

It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague 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 ...

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 ...

Mark Davis, big data distinguished engineer, Dell Software Group, agreed that many of organizations are having a hard time scaling enormous amounts of data. “Early use of Hadoop was to analyze social ...

Hadoop introduced a new way to simplify the analysis of large data sets, and in a very short time reshaped the big data market. In fact, today Hadoop is often synonymous with the term big data. Since ...

If you’re in charge of architecting a big data strategy for your organization, you have a lot of tough decisions to make. One of the easiest, however, may be to use cloud repositories to store and ...

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 ...

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 ...