Lots of data professionals who work in the Microsoft database and cloud ecosystems have been wondering out loud when Microsoft would offer a cloud data warehouse service to compete with Amazon's Redshift. The answer came today in San Francisco during the opening keynote at Microsoft's Build conference as Executive Vice

This data lake stack includes VMware, Pivotal, EMC and third party Hadoop vendors such as Cloudera and Hortonworks as well as analytics platforms including SAS and Tableau. EMC and its federated companies---Pivotal and VMware---have integrated a few third party vendors in what it bills a preintegrated data lake for big

An increasing number of enterprises are either currently using or are planning to use cloud deployment models to expand their IT infrastructure for big data. We find that organizations are looking for an open and flexible platform that enables them to deploy big data and Hadoop solutions on-premises, in the

Google announced the release of MapReduce for C (MR4C), an open source framework that allows you to run native code in Hadoop. MR4C was originally developed at Skybox Imaging to facilitate large scale satellite image processing and geospatial data science. More>>

Google today formally announced the existence of a status dashboard for several of its cloud infrastructure services in the Google Cloud platform. The dashboard first showed up online last year in “experimental” mode, but now that designation has been dropped. Google does still consider it to be in beta, though.

If you wish to process huge piles of data very, very quickly, you’re in luck. From the comfort of your own data center, you can now use Google’s recently announced Dataflow programming model for processing data in batches or as it comes in, on top of the fast Spark open-source

In 2015, data agility will emerge as a top focus, organizations will move from data lakes to processing data platforms, and self-service Big Data will go mainstream. This is all according to John Schroeder, CEO and co-founder of MapR Technologies, Inc., a provider of an enterprise-grade distribution for Apache Hadoop.

Wikibon research has demonstrated that most Big Data projects in 2014 actually lost money, returning an average of 55 cents on the dollar. However, a few companies stood out, with ROI of three times or more on their Big Data investments. More>>

A new infographic from data management company Solix looks at what Hadoop is, the four modules that make it up, and how it’s used in the enterprise, along with a glimpse at its future.More>>