What's Hot In Big Data? The 2013 O'Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference is under way in New York, where just about every major player in the big data arena is showing off their latest technology ...

Big data was one of the hottest areas in the IT industry in 2013. The rapid growth in the volume, variety and velocity of data flowing through businesses' IT systems is growing exponentially -- and so ...

To stay competitive in the big data world today, it is imperative to design strategies around data analysis. The faster a business can ask questions, the faster they can get answers from their data.

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 ...

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its ...

Hadoop. Once largely unknown, hit the scene in part due to the explosion of unstructured data. It’s common for uses like web analytics, which requires more flexibility. And shortly after the ...

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Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning “Big Data” market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop ...