Building on last month’s release of Apache Hadoop 2.2, big data application platform specialist Concurrent today released a new version of Cascading, its big data application framework. “I created ...

If 2013 was the year that most organizations discovered what Big Data platforms such as Hadoop were all about, then the coming year will be the one in which they discover the applications that turn ...

Managers see big data—defined as greater data volumes, data types, data sources, and data velocity—as having many potential benefits, including a better understanding of their customers, products, and ...

Aaron Kimball co-founded WibiData in 2010. He has worked with Hadoop since 2007 and is a committer on the Apache Hadoop project. Software applications have traditionally been perceived as a unit of ...

It is time to rethink the approach to solving problems with software. The new approach must be data first, not application first. Data is the key to every downstream activity. Without considering the ...

Data is an increasingly valuable asset for businesses and a critical component of many digital transformation and business automation initiatives. Here’s a look at 10 cool tools in the big data ...

The challenge with Big Data continues to center around getting the right information to the right people at the right time, even as information sources and uses grow. Written by eWEEK content and ...

The primary focus of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) framework is on protecting the rights of individuals to privacy, without compromising their personal data stored by state ...

Build and maintain a distributed system, practicing software engineering fundamentals; test first development, refactoring, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. Write custom performance ...

Businesses are looking to next-generation database systems, data transformation and integration tools and big data analytics software to help them leverage exploding volumes of data. Here’s a look at ...

Oracle is planning to release a series of applications that take advantage of in-memory computing, a move that will up the competitive ante between itself and SAP. While Oracle announced more than a ...