You’ve likely heard the terms “Big Data” and “Cloud Computing” before. If you’re involved with cloud application development, you may even have experience with them. The two go hand-in-hand, with many ...

Overview: Modern big data tools like Apache Spark and Apache Kafka enable fast processing and real-time streaming for smarter ...

Big data analytics are driving rapid growth of public cloud computing. Why? It solves real problems, delivers real value, and is pretty easy to implement on public clouds. Don’t take my word for it.

Much like artificial intelligence, Big Data is becoming an increasing threat as much as it is an opportunity. The more data we gather, the more analysis that can be performed. And the more accurate ...

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 ...

To fulfill the promise of big data, you need to abstract data from its underpinnings -- at both the data and infrastructure layers Big data in the cloud has so many potential functional service layers ...

We’ve all seen statistics demonstrating the amount of data being generated and gathered daily with average amounts in the Petabyte and Exabyte range. Processing such large amounts of data is what big ...

Cloud computing may be the answer for organizations looking to boost their server and storage utilization rates without increasing the workforce supporting those systems, says Nicholas Carr, author of ...

Delphix, a startup that exists at the boring-to-consumers-but-otherwise-a-total-goldmine intersection between cloud computing and big data, has just dried the ink on a healthy funding deal — one that ...

Cloud is flexible. Because of this core reality, a second truism also comes to light i.e. there is no R in cloud, except there is. Because the cloud computing model of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ...

Announcements of new data platforms were highlighted at Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) first ever “re: Invent” user conference this week. Among the headlines, AWS announced Amazon Redshift, a managed, ...