AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) has announced that it will soon offer machine learning as an option to customers. The technology is the same creepy stuff that uses algorithms to recommend things that you might also like when you browse Mazon’s retail site.More>>

Rocana (formerly ScalingData) announced $15 million in Series B funding led by Google Ventures with General Catalyst Partners, Toba Capital and Paul Sagan (former chairman at Akamai and current executive in residence at General Catalyst) also contributing. More>>

Hitachi Data Systems is aiming its big-data expertise at health care and enterprise IT departments with specialized products for combining types of information. More>>

EMC has launched an appliance to help its customers build “data lakes”, melding, it says, technology from EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware. More>>

MongoDB test reports superior durability and throughput compared to Cassandra and Couchbase, but is it another case of biased, vendor-sponsored research? More>>

Barclays analyst Raimo Lenschow says that barriers to Hadoop adoption will fall as more businesses use software called Hive. More>>

Solix Technologies, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions, introduces the Solix Big Data Suite, a next-generation Enterprise Archiving and Enterprise Data Lake application platform for Apache Hadoop. More>>

More and more retailers are learning the importance of big data and how it can be applied to improve sales, but few have the core expertise to understand how to gather, organize, and to analyze it. More>>

Unchecked data growth can cripple application performance, strain an organization’s resources and drive up infrastructure costs. Assessing the impact of data growth is critical to an effective Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy. More>>

Organizations need specialists, or “translators,” who can analyze, distill, and clearly communicate information of the greatest potential value. More>>