While most great big data technology is open source, building out a big data application isn’t as simple as downloading Hadoop or the NoSQL database of your choice.

The 'big data' world is pervasive-to the point in which every organization is now a big data organization. As AI, machine learning, and other high-end analytics become mainstream parts of business ...

Cloudera Data Platform. Cloudera merged with rival big data software vendor Hortonworks at the start of 2019 and began the complex process of combining the two companies’ technology portfolios.

It’s still early for big data technologies. There are vexing problems slowing the growth and the practical implementation of big data technologies. For the technologies to succeed at scale ...

An updated edition of the May 23, 2025 article. Big Data specifically refers to massive amounts of information generated daily from various sources, such as online shopping, sensors, social media, ...

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.

As the volume of data that businesses try to collect, manage and analyze continues to explode, spending for big data and business analytics technologies is expected to reach $210 billion by 2020.

However, healthcare providers are having a hard time exploiting the Big Data opportunity. In order to better understand both the opportunity and the challenge, EMC commissioned a study by MeriTalk ...

When selecting big data technologies, there are a lot of elements in the solution to consider. I hope the answers to these eight questions will help you to make effective data management decisions ...

The big data world is changing in ways never seen before, particularly when it comes to bringing data together and into situations where it can be actionable for the business. The challenge faced by ...