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.

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.

Open-source source platforms for big data have exploded in popularity. And in the past few months, it seems like nearly everyone is feeling the fallout. Topics ...

The "big data" term has been used since 2009, but has quickly turned into the biggest thing to hit information technology since the virtualization craze of the last decade. Enterprises are awash ...

Open Source Big Data. By Maj. Isaac J. Faber and Ms. Elissa Zadrozny July 14, ... The government is developing a strategy to enable communities with big data needs to have access to this technology.

In current environments where “data is the new king,” federal agencies can become overwhelmed by and begin to “drown” in their data. But new technologies, like Hortonworks’ open source big data ...

But here at the Apache: Big Data North America conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, the well of innovation that is the open source community is on full display. Open source software is ...

There are a lot of open source projects out there, and keeping track of them all is next to impossible. Here are five important ones in the Big Data space that you may not know about.

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.

Open source plays a big role not just in individual components or pieces of a business, but also in driving outcomes for the business itself,” said Vijoy Pandey, senior vice-president of the ...

It's no secret that Hadoop and Apache Spark are two of the hottest technologies in big data today, but what's less commonly remarked upon is the fact that they're both open-source software.