Oracle is making a play for the 'big data' market - capturing, storing and analysing the vast amounts of unstructured data that businesses gather every day. At Oracle's OpenWorld event in San ...

If you deal with machine data, chances are you’re familiar with Splunk, a big data tool geared specifically for machine data. Splunk collects, indexes and correlates real-time data generated by ...

IBM said it is continuing to strive to offer firms data management solutions as the amount of data generated threatens to get out of control for most companies. IT is seeking to build on its BigData ...

Enterprise storage juggernaut EMC Corp. is rolling out support for Cloudera Inc.’s market-leading Hadoop distribution to its Isilon line of scale-out arrays in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the ...

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Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...

IBM said Friday that it will invest $100 million on research for analytics and big data projects and expanded its portfolio accordingly. The company also launched Hadoop-based services. Hadoop is open ...

The Hadoop Summit 2012 in San Jose June 13 and 14 could see a the public coming out of Hadoop on Microsoft Windows Server. The move, probably either at Hadoop or at Microsoft’s Tech Ed starting June ...

EMC today announced a comprehensive strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software as an enterprise-ready tool for Big Data. EMC introduced the world's ...

It's been six years since Yahoo developer Doug Cutting created a platform for managing, storing and analyzing large volumes of data, naming it for his son's toy elephant and turning it over to the ...

It seems that no matter where you go these days (twitter, your favorite tech blog, email newsletters,) that everyone is talking about Big Data. Let’s face it, Big Data is a buzzword, or buzz term, ...