HP software chief: Big data role gives Autonomy a boostAfter the storm generated by the takeover of Autonomy, Hewlett-Packard software boss George Kadifa says momentum is building behind the big data analytics firm's technology.December 18, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Hadoop's Tez: Why winning Apache's top level status mattersThis week's announcement by the Apache Software Foundation of top-level project status for the Tez framework is a significant step, according to Hortonworks' Shaun Connolly.July 23, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Hadoop's rise: Why you don't need petabytes for a big data openingPeople are often hung up on the volume aspect of big data but other factors can be just as telling in the issues they raise for business.April 10, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Look at what Google and Amazon are doing with databases: That's your futureIt may seem unlikely that ordinary firms will ever be able to emulate the resource-rich web giants when it comes to data architectures. But that possibility may be closer than you think, says Neo Technology CEO Emil Eifrem.November 3, 2014 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Hortonworks founder: YARN is Hadoop's datacentre OSAs lead on MapReduce and part of Hadoop from its inception, Arun Murthy offers his take on YARN's importance to the open-source project and enterprise data architecture.October 31, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Real-time Hadoop analytics: ScaleOut turns on in-memory techOpen-source big-data platform Hadoop excels at batch-mode processing at scale but it was never designed for real-time analytics. ScaleOut Software has middleware that it thinks addresses the issue.April 16, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Big data deluge: How Dutch water is trying to turn the tideWith the Dutch water system efficiently churning out data from countless incompatible sources, a research project is now trying to work out how to open up the databases.October 1, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
With IBM Power8 deal and Oracle backing for Cypher project, graph database Neo4j 2.3 is now outOn top of new features in the latest release of the graph database, Neo4j is being tuned for IBM hardware while Neo's query language Cypher gets its own open-source project.October 21, 2015 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data Analytics
Big data analytics: Why UK military must bite the bulletThe British military establishment collects more data than it can analyse, and it's time to address the issue, warns an influential think tank.September 20, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data
Big data: Why most businesses just don't get itBig data could be the answer to all their problems but the trouble is most businesses may be failing to ask the right questions, according to analyst firm Gartner.February 15, 2013 by Toby Wolpe in Big Data