How big is big data? Scratch the surface and the figures are quite astonishing. A study at the end of last year by research group IDC predicts the digital universe will reach 40 zettabytes in size – that’s 45 trillion ...
One service that Cloudera provides for our customers is help with tuning and optimizing MapReduce jobs. Since MapReduce and HDFS are complex distributed systems that run arbitrary user code, there’s no hard and fast set of rules to achieve optimal ...
Amid subdued demand for traditional information technology (IT) services offerings, Indian IT services players are betting on big data, as this is high on clients' agenda. Most IT services companies are enhancing their capabilities, either by creating platforms to process ...
IBM wants to help IT managers apply company policies to their big data analysis projects.
The company will be introducing new products and features to help organizations manage their new big data systems with the same rigor that they manage other ...
Pentaho Corporation and MongoDB, Inc. today announced advanced MongoDB integration with the Pentaho Business Analytics 5.0 platform, which launched today. Together these technologies provide a powerful, interactive analytical solution that meets the increasing requirements for big data in businesses today.
The ...
Intel on Tuesday said it was getting into the software business with its own Hadoop distribution. The move is a potential blow for startups such as Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR that are offering their own distributions of Hadoop, but it’s ...
Real-time search for open source projects using Hadoop and Apache HBase. Cloudera has announced the general availability of Cloudera Search and an accompanying add-on RTS (Real-time Search) subscription. This product represents the first fully integrated search engine for interactive exploration ...
Enterprise software giant SAP says it's buying predictive-analytics firm KXEN to increase use of its own big-data analysis tools among ordinary business staff by adding more automation.
The planned acquisition for an undisclosed sum will allow SAP to absorb KXEN's "powerful ...
Recent revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency’s massive data collection programs illustrates the need for a new privacy debate about the implications of big data, some privacy advocates said Tuesday.
The increasing uses of big data in all kinds of ...
If there is an oft-cited and "classic" example of big data use, it's the story of an enterprise that capitalizes on parsing and analyzing unstructured and semi-structured data about its customers from the Internet and other data sources that formerly ...