The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...

A new series of execution frameworks have recently been added to the Hadoop ecosystem, including Spark, Tez, Flink, Storm and Samza, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. As such, it’s ...

Seventeen "big brains" from the public and private sectors offer definitions, challenges and more in new industry-funded report. Editor's note: The links in this article were updated after its ...

A recent MeriTalk survey of federal information technology professionals reinforces how harnessing reams of agency data can go a long way to help decision-makers. In the report, “The Big Data Gap,” 59 ...

Big Data technologies are bringing about an industrial revolution, offering novel solutions in managing, analyzing, and making use of the ocean of information created every day. At the forefront of ...

This post is brought to you by Comcast Business Class . There’s a lot of big talk about “Big Data,” but it’s difficult to understand exactly what it all means. When you begin tossing around high-level ...