IBM has announced major advances to its PureSystem family of integrated systems, directly targeting a big data technology and services market that IDC says will reach $16.9 billion by 2015.
International Data Corporation (IDC) has issued a new report forecasting that the worldwide market for big data technology and services will reach $23.8 billion in 2016.
Joyent announced a new Apache Hadoop-based solution, built using the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), that allows companies to run enterprise-class Hadoop on the high-performance Joyent Cloud.
Reports indicate that Rackspace (RAX) will likely win more business from retail giant Wal-Mart (WMT), which is hiring engineers for the OpenStack platform.
When I first started writing code, software application developers were called programmers. In the boardroom, the term programmer wasn't a term of endearment, and the term geek was a derogatory insult. Today, developers typically play a role in...
IBM has expanded its PureSystems family of expert integrated systems with the introduction of PureData System. These systems compete with Oracle's Exadata and SAP's HANA in the high performance computing (HPC) appliance market.
Big data - massive quantities of unstructured data - present big storage challenges. Here's how one company is addressing its storage needs with DataDirect Networks, a storage provider who serves the big data crowd - government, media and...
Hitachi Data Systems has acquired network attached storage (NAS) specialist BlueArc Corporation in an all cash transaction, the companies said today. The deal consummates a long partnership between the two companies, and provides Hitachi Data...
Wednesday's Structure Big Data explored the world of huge datasets and the technology needed to mine its secrets and convert them into business intelligence. From the data center perspective, storing and processing all that data becomes more...
Although there is a fair amount of hype about the words "big data," it's also clear that there is value in scale and efficiencies of the information factories. Here's a look at some of the big numbers and trends in this area.
