Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting.

Getting over the gee-whiz factor of Big Data can be tough. Enumerating important Big Data sources and technologies can give us a good start in moving the discussion forward.

Agile Big Data is the idea that it shouldn’t cost a fortune or take years to start getting the value of big data. There are a variety of players like Splunk, 1010data, Pervasive who have ...

Part 1 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data analytics space including Qlik, Salesforce Tableau, SAS and ThoughtSpot.

Power BI Desktop users can now arrive at their insights faster by controlling how the software handles massive amounts of information or slow data sources.

Still demystified by Big Data? What is it? Where does it come from? What do you do with it? Kapow Software has a very interesting visualization of the various sources of Big Data that organizations ...

Big data is making a big splash these days and open source technology is at the core of most of these big data initiatives. Here are 15 key open source big data technologies to keep an eye on.

Here are 33 free to use public data sources anyone can use for their big data and AI projects. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. Featured. Featured. Breaking News. White House Watch.

Over 15,000 big data connectors were downloaded in 2011, according to a new report published this week by business intelligence software provider Jaspersoft. Hadoop 2011's biggest big data source ...

Big Data Business Analytics. Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today -- what's come to be known as big data.

As per The Open Source Era study, commissioned by Wipro, 64% of respondents of Oxford Economics research believe that open source will drive Big Data efforts in the next three years.

Big data needs further qualification through the context and relationships that come from core enterprise data, to make sense of what big data may be communicating. Other sources of data and ...