New types of data are constantly appearing: Big Data tools and technologies are evolving to keep up. For example, data associated with virtual assistants and AI (Artificial Intelligence ...

Guest The big data ecosystem has now reached a tipping point: We are entering what I would call the next generation of big data — big data 2.0 — where the focus is on three key areas: ...

The report, called Massachusetts Big Data Indicators 2015, highlights the metrics behind a flourishing regional big data ecosystem that includes more than $2.4 billion in private investment in ...

It’s been almost two years since I took a first stab at charting the booming big data ecosystem, and it’s been a period of incredible activity in the space. An updated chart was long overdue ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem. Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for ...

In its announcement on 2/18, MapR made a strong statement about its vision of the right product to support use of big data in the business world. MapR’s product is its platform, a set of ...

Casaletto used an example of a big data analysis use case, analyzing web traffic, and showed how data travels from Apache Web Servers and HAproxy, using tools such as RSyslog, Flume, Kafka, and Spark ...

Modern will play a lead role in the North America AI & Big Data Expo, held October 5-6 in Santa Clara, California, including thought leadership discussions exploring the AI and big data ecosystem ...

Hadoop Summit San Jose has come to an end. This year, I was there to cover the news, and to present a breakout session. My talk focused on fragmentation in the industry: the Big Data ecosystem has ...

Along with an increasing flow of big data that needs to be captured and analyzed, IT departments today also have more solution choices than ever before. However, before making a solution selection, ...