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 ...

IBM said Friday that it will invest $100 million on research for analytics and big data projects and expanded its portfolio accordingly. The company also launched Hadoop-based services. Hadoop is open ...

It's been six years since Yahoo developer Doug Cutting created a platform for managing, storing and analyzing large volumes of data, naming it for his son's toy elephant and turning it over to the ...

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 ...

IBM will wade even further into the unstructured data analytics market, offering its Hadoop-based InfoSphere BigInsights tool as service atop the IBM SmartCloud platform, the company announced today ...