One of the major barriers to any successful Big Data project is mastering all of the technologies needed to make it happen. Big Data has evolved into a mish-mash of technologies, with Hadoop at the ...

It's exciting to see the industry begin to rally around a best-practice big data stack - a construct on which to build reference architectures for scalable, secure big data systems. Open dialog on ...

Today’s “big data stack” includes databases, data management software and data analytics tools – all critical components of an effective operational or analytical data system. But all those ...

IBM’s pending acquisition of Vivisimo, announced last week, brings into focus an important component of the Big Data stack: Big Data discovery. By Big Data discovery, I’m referring to a layer in the ...

Will 2014 see the emergence of a big data equivalent of the LAMP stack? Richard Daley, one of the founders and chief strategy officer of analytics and business intelligence specialist Pentaho, ...

Unravel Data, provider of a full-stack performance intelligence platform for optimizing Big Data operations (DataOps [1]), emerged from stealth, announcing a new platform to accelerate Big Data ...

In a move to spur category-defining companies at every layer of the big data stack, Venture capital firm Accel Partners has launched a $100 million "Big Data Fund." The fund targets transformative ...

In this special guest feature, Kunal Agarwal, CEO at Unravel Data explores the area of big data Application Performance Management (APM) and why enterprises need it. APM is not a new discipline, but ...

Back in the early 1990s, you would sometimes hear this gag: “Two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” Although wildly inaccurate, this ...

A data-processing solution from Mesosphere leverages Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra -- but eschews Hadoop -- for enterprise level real-time big-data needs Mention big-data tools like Spark and Kafka to ...

Today’s “big data stack” includes databases, data management software and data analytics tools – all critical components of an effective operational or analytical data system. But all those ...