The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...

Hadoop stores massive amounts of data across many computers safely.Spark processes big data much faster than traditional ...

Splunk says its Hunk product for Hadoop will open up big-data analytics to a wider business audience and also make life easier for developers. Hunk, which is now downloadable for a free 60-day trial, ...

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python’s data processing and visualization ...

Is the day of the pure Hadoop startups over? Are the big vendors, and in particular the cloud service providers, taking over Hadoop infrastructure? Will most Big Data production systems be built on ...