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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Businesses continue to struggle with exploding volumes of data, not just manage it to keep IT systems from being overwhelmed, but to find ways of deriving value from all that data and somehow use it ...

In this special guest feature, Kunal Agarwal, CEO at Unravel Data explores the area of big data Application Performance Management (APM) and why enterprises need it. APM is not a new discipline, but ...

Back in the early 1990s, you would sometimes hear this gag: “Two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” Although wildly inaccurate, this ...

It is amazing how much of the discussion of big data focuses on technology rather than data. In this article I will imagine a CIO thinking about data first and technology second. Such a CIO would make ...