Big Data
Bullish Hadoop Forecast Despite Spark Hype
Despite major market inroads being made by Apache Spark, a new forecast estimates the global market for the Hadoop big data framework will continue to grow at a healthy ...Full Article
The Third Age of Data and the Unfolding Scale-out World
Welcome to the Third Age of Data, where an estimated 1 trillion sensors are embedded in a nearly limitless landscape of networked sources, from health monitoring devices to municipal ...Full Article
9 Ways Retailers Are Using Big Data and Hadoop
The big data revolution is changing how business gets done in all industries. That includes the massive retail market, which drives $2.6 trillion in business in the U.S. and ...Full Article
It’s 3 a.m. — Do You Know What Your Cluster’s Doing?
Performance challenges in Hadoop environments are par for the course as organizations attempt to capture the benefits of big data. The growing ecosystem of tools and applications (including new ...Full Article
Enterprises Embrace Machine Learning
Machine learning technology is poised to move from niche data analytics applications to mainstream enterprise big data campaigns over the next two years, a recent vendor survey suggests. SoftServe, ...Full Article
An Insider’s Guide to Building a Cloud-based FinServ Big Data Analytics Shared Service
Even if you’ve never lived through a data analytics development project at a financial services organization, you know it’s a complicated undertaking. But you may not know just how ...Full Article
Scale-Out Platform Emerges With Foxconn Backing
Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is among the early investors in the enterprise infrastructure platform developer DriveScale Inc. Emerging from stealth mode this week, DriveScale Inc. announced a $15 ...Full Article
MapR Rolls Hadoop Migration ‘Easy Button’
MapR Technologies Inc. rolled out a migration service for its Hadoop distribution that targets what it says is growing demand for moving big data production installations to its converged ...Full Article
Volatile Energy Sector Eyes ‘Information Fusion’
Given the current state of the global energy sector—including the nation's largest coal mining company filing for bankruptcy protection this week—no current operator can afford to drill a dry ...Full Article
