Oracle is making a play for the 'big data' market - capturing, storing and analysing the vast amounts of unstructured data that businesses gather every day. At Oracle's OpenWorld event in San ...

Enterprise storage juggernaut EMC Corp. is rolling out support for Cloudera Inc.’s market-leading Hadoop distribution to its Isilon line of scale-out arrays in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the ...

If you deal with machine data, chances are you’re familiar with Splunk, a big data tool geared specifically for machine data. Splunk collects, indexes and correlates real-time data generated by ...

IBM said it is continuing to strive to offer firms data management solutions as the amount of data generated threatens to get out of control for most companies. IT is seeking to build on its BigData ...

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Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...

EMC today announced a comprehensive strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software as an enterprise-ready tool for Big Data. EMC introduced the world's ...

IBM has ventured even deeper into the world of "Big Data" with its acquisition of Platform Computing, a Canadian software outfit that builds tools for managing the large computing clusters so often ...

Unstructured data is estimated to account for nearly 80 percent of health care information, a hodge-podge of physicians’ notes, sensor data from medical devices, lab results, X-ray and MRI images ...

Hewlett-Packard says the next version of Autonomy IDOL links the data-analysis tool more deeply into the company's key big-data technologies. Version 10.5 of IDOL, which is designed to extract meaning ...

It seems that no matter where you go these days (twitter, your favorite tech blog, email newsletters,) that everyone is talking about Big Data. Let’s face it, Big Data is a buzzword, or buzz term, ...