Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...

The rise of Hadoop has created new oceans of data to explore, and Oracle has a new software product that’s designed to help. Called Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, it brings new analytic ...

Alex Buttery writes that Hadoop skills are in demand, but that Academia is behind the ball. Hadoop is one of the up-and-coming technologies for performing analysis on big data, but to date very few ...

Nautilus Technologies, Inc., provider of enterprise middle-ware with consulting and development for Hadoop environment, and MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache ...

After nearly seven years of development, Apache has released version 1.0 of its popular Hadoop data analysis platform After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data ...

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 ...

Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what's come to be known as big data. Companies are seeking technologies that not ...

For the first production release of what will be its flagship Apache Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks has focused on providing a set of tools to help deploy, manage and extend the data analysis ...

Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As a result, there’s a lot of mythology around big data. Those myths can ...