Big data can bring huge benefits to businesses of all sizes. However, as with any business project, proper preparation and planning is essential, especially when it comes to infrastructure. Until ...

The Big Data Suite was responsible for $40 million of the $100 million in total business Pivotal did in 2014. Today, the company took the unprecedented step of open sourcing all those components.

Components of big data. While big data is often discussed in terms of its size and types, it’s essential to understand the tools and systems that hold it together. Storage systems.

The where and what. The easiest example of "big data" is one that everyone reading this article is familiar with—Google’s search. It works so quickly and so reliably that it’s rare to spare ...

Big data technologies differ from traditional RDBMS in one basic and very important respect, writes Wikibon Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert. RDBMS technology was vertically integrated, ...

Pivotal, the Big Data spinoff from EMC and VMWare, ... Suddenly the more minor components become value-adds rather than curious appendages that might be hard to license on their own.

Big Data, AI, and IoT are three of the most widely misappropriated terms of recent times, and many do not know how these technologies are linked, or how they have paved the way for the ...

When the data scientists at messaging software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc. embarked upon a new project in 2014 to store, manage and extract insights from the massive amounts of data produced i ...

All Systems Go. Today’s “big data stack” includes databases, data management and integration software, and data analytics tools—all critical components of an effective operational or ...