Big Data

“IBM is investing to build capacity in quantum computing on the continent, and enter additional research opportunities in quantum fields,” Solomon Assefa, IBM’s vice president for Africa and emerging-markets research, said.

Data is bigger, more informative, more important than ever. Here are some basic considerations for enterprises that want to make the most of it.

Data scientist was the highest-paying entry-level job last year, according to Glassdoor research. Young adults in this field earned a median annual base salary of $95,000. That’s higher than young Wall Street workers received as investment-banking...

Big data companies Cloudera and Hortonworks are starting 2019 as a combined entity, completing their merger on Thursday.

In a year when Microsoft has added a lot to the open source software landscape, it is closing out 2018 with one last addition to its open source contributions and work. Also: information about merging data between G Suite applications; Microsoft's...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying BlueData, a startup whose software makes deploying infrastructure for big data and machine learning easier for enterprises...

Snowflake Computing, developer of a cloud-based data warehouse solution, has raised $450 million in venture funding...

Cloudera and Hortonworks, best known for being top enterprise Hadoop distributions, have agreed to merge...

With the newly announced SQL Server 2019, Microsoft is expanding its bet on both open source technologies and Apache Spark.