Building on last month’s release of Apache Hadoop 2.2, big data application platform specialist Concurrent today released a new version of Cascading, its big data application framework. “I created ...

If 2013 was the year that most organizations discovered what Big Data platforms such as Hadoop were all about, then the coming year will be the one in which they discover the applications that turn ...

Managers see big data—defined as greater data volumes, data types, data sources, and data velocity—as having many potential benefits, including a better understanding of their customers, products, and ...

Part 7 of CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the big data technology startups that solution providers should know about. The most innovative technologies often come from startups. When they ...

Big data has become a big topic for 2012. It's not only the size, but also the complexity of formats and speed of delivery of data that is starting to exceed the capabilities of traditional data ...

These innovations put data to work in sales, marketing, music, and beyond. If there’s one thing businesses have in abundance, ...

Aaron Kimball co-founded WibiData in 2010. He has worked with Hadoop since 2007 and is a committer on the Apache Hadoop project. Software applications have traditionally been perceived as a unit of ...

One implication of ubiquitous sensing as evidenced by the rapid growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the explosive increase in data being collected. This data comes from myriad sources: According ...

Data is an increasingly valuable asset for businesses and a critical component of many digital transformation and business automation initiatives. Here’s a look at 10 cool tools in the big data ...

Build and maintain a distributed system, practicing software engineering fundamentals; test first development, refactoring, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. Write custom performance ...

The primary focus of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) framework is on protecting the rights of individuals to privacy, without compromising their personal data stored by state ...