Alpine Data Labs, like Cloudera and Hortonworks, places value on contributing back to the open source community.

PEO EIS and ARCYBER found something interesting in analyzing the government's off-the-shelf big data systems: Nearly all are built using high-quality, open-source software. With a similar ...

Seminal big data software library Apache Hadoop gained momentum in open source, and today, most disruptive big data development is springing from open source as well.

Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting ...

IBM suggests how eliminating noise in the patient ward -- while slightly eerie and unnerving -- could actually improve healthcare. But it can't be done without big data and the cloud.

There are a lot of open source projects out there, and keeping track of them all is next to impossible. Here are five important ones in the Big Data space that you may not know about.

Open source software is fundamental to big data, says Roman Shaposhnik, who runs the Apache Incubator project for the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the main sponsor of this event. “In a way, open ...

Big data is making a big splash these days and open source technology is at the core of most of these big data initiatives. Here are 15 key open source big data technologies to keep an eye on.

The scientific community and commercial bodies should come up with a consortium to resolve this issue by creating an open-source format, instead of developing their own pathway-drawing tools.