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 ...

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its ...

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., May 27 –– RedPoint Global Inc. (www.redpoint.net), a leading provider of data management and digital marketing software, today announced the general availability of RedPoint ...

Linux desktop software certainly has its hard-core fans, but the open-source program has always faced an uphill battle against a proprietary Microsoft Windows product that could pretty much do all the ...

Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), a leading provider of Big Data management software solutions, announced the latest release of Attunity Visibility for Hadoop with enhanced technology to enable ...

Hadoop and other big data technologies are extremely complex and specialized, and making them work securely entails stitching together many pieces. An organization that wants to set up a big data ...

Many organizations have found that it is relatively easy to download Hadoop software for free, and then load their data. What is far more difficult is to gain a competitive advantage from analyzing ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

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 ...

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...