Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.

John Bantleman is CEO of RainStor, which sells database software used for big data projects. We’ve entered the age of Big Data where new business opportunities are discovered every day because ...

Drowning in the volume, variety and velocity of Big Data, an increasing number of businesses and their IT managers are turning toward Hadoop and the rapidly expanding list of Hadoop-related ...

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 ...

In a new survey conducted by Syncsort, 250 prominent respondents including data architects, IT managers, developers, business intelligence/data analysts, and data scientists weigh in on big data ...

While Hadoop remains one of the most popular platforms for big data, there's no single correct way to implement it in a manner best suited to your company's business requirements. We delve into where ...

Big Data is confusing — and not just for business leaders. CIOs find it befuddling, too. Scott Schlesinger, vice president and head of North American Business Information Management at Capgemini, ...

Apache’s Hadoop technologies are becoming critical in helping enterprises manage vast amounts of data, with users ranging from NASA to Twitter to Netflix increasing their reliance on the open source ...

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 newly launched Distribution for Apache Hadoop software, which includes Intel Manager for Apache Hadoop software, will be baked into Intel's silicon as the chip maker looks to capitalize on big ...