Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced on Thursday that the firm’s first low-power server for hyperscale computing environments, developed under a …
Gartner: Big Data not always the answer
According to research firm Gartner, Big Data is currently still a solution looking for a problem, despite it being forecast …
Driving business growth with big data
Sam Tayan, Regional Director, VMware MENA, discusses driving business growth in the Middle East with big data. Throughout 2012, big …
Facebook tackles Hadoop achilles' heel
Running what they believe is the world’s largest Hadoop-based collection of data, Facebook engineers have developed a way to circumnavigate …
SAP puts its HANA in-memory database in the spotlight
SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire …
Explosive growth expected for Hadoop, MapReduce-related revenues: IDC
The market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will jump from US$77 …
Amazon CTO: startups lead the way in big data analytics
Startups and small companies are stealing a march on their larger enterprise counterparts by employing analytics at the heart of …
Red Hat announces beta availability of Storage 2.0
A beta version of Red Hat Storage 2.0 was announced Monday by the Massachusetts-based open-source software company. The product — …
Oracle’s big data appliance brings focus to bundled approach
Oracle’s Big Data Appliance product, which began shipping Tuesday , gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache …
Hadoop solidified for production duty
After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full …