There’s no denying that big data is essential for rapid business growth. Companies properly leveraging and analyzing big data achieve their business objectives more quickly, whether that’s customer retention, effective real-time campaigns... More>>

Big data has given businesses a window into valuable streams of information from customer purchasing habits to inventory status. However, internal data streams give only a limited picture, especially with the growth of digital business. More>>

In the past 20 months or so, the term data lakes has surfaced as yet another phrase that seemingly attempts to describe a large repository of unstructured data. Other terms used in the industry are content depots, content repositories.... More>>

Without effective data governance and data management, big data can mean big problems for many organizations. Here are 10 practical steps to success. More>>

It used to be pretty simple to know what you could and could not do with data. Today, not crossing the red line requires more sensitivity to privacy and ethics... More>>

Kdb+ is a leader in what is unarguably the most demanding big data market: financial trading and risk management. The company is now targeting other environments. More>>

IBM z13 refresh packs performance gains, but can it really join the mobile, big data, and cloud age? Here's a look at aspirations versus realities. More>>

For those trying to sort out the big data technology stack, in particular Apache Hadoop, here is a compelling new infographic “The Current State of Hadoop: A look at the rise of Hadoop in big data enterprise applications" More>>

Hortonworks®, a leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, has announced the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) version 2.2, an enterprise-ready data platform that enables organizations to adopt a modern data architecture with Hadoop YARN as the architectural center, supported by key capabilities required of an enterprise data platform