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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a written follow-up to a talk presented at a recent Strata online event. A new breed of startup is emerging, built to take advantage of the rising tides of data across a variety of verticals ...

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 ...