The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...

The floods that devastated the hard disk industry in Thailand are now half a year old, and the prices per terabyte are finally dropping once again. That means data will start piling up and people ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 17 — Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source ...

It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Apache Hadoop project, the open source implementation of Google's File System (GFS) and MapReduce execution engine, turned 10 this week. The technology, ...

Out today, a free MapR-DB developer preview shows how the NoSQL database can now handle JSON documents natively, in a move designed to simplify and speed up big-data app development. The addition of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced the next evolution of big data analytics ...

This week's O'Reilly Strata and Hadoop World conference in New York has attracted a wide range of IT vendors, from industry leaders like IBM and Hewlett-Packard to companies established in the Hadoop ...

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python’s data processing and visualization ...

Now that “data scientist” has been named this year’s hottest job, it’s only natural to wonder if you’ve got what it takes to fill it. With a median base salary of $116,840 and top rankings from ...

It's about time: More than 10 years after we first heard the term, "big data" has become productive. The world’s largest enterprises — Apple, Wal-Mart and countless others — run large-scale data ...