Big Data

'Podling' Apache projects are spending longer in the incubator

ApacheCon Out of 30, four retired and only seven have graduated this year

Software17 Nov 2016 | 4

Hadoop experiencing growing pains in lamestream businesses

Apache Big Data Platform little more than 'skunkworks' outside tech industries

Software16 Nov 2016 | 4

MongoDB's CEO: Expect aggressive investing as biz aims at Oracle et al

Interview Explosive growth anticipated on what is between $100-200m in annual revenue

On-Prem16 Nov 2016 | 10

DataStax slurps DataScale, burps out own managed cloud

NoSQL business moving towards revenue generation?

SaaS15 Nov 2016 | 1

Hortonworks prescribes cloudy Hadoop for AWS

Hourly billing? Puff puff PaaS

SaaS15 Nov 2016 |

Hadoop for joy? ODPi 2.0's available, but questions persist

Welcome focus on Hive standards... but how many more components to go?

Software14 Nov 2016 |

Laziness and hate drove me to invent my storage engine concept, says MariaDB's CTO

Interview Monty Widenius chats with El Reg at the Big Data London conference

Software08 Nov 2016 | 6

Anti-ultrasound tech aims to foil the dog-whistle marketeers

Black Hat EU Researchers are finding ways to protect users from cross-device tracking

Security04 Nov 2016 | 23

Privacy Commission wants new rights for personal data control

Don't cheer: this is about more data sharing, so business can profit from you more easily

Legal02 Nov 2016 |

Tableau revenues drop due to weak UK sales, fingers sales bods not Brexit

We're going to have shoulder this ourselves, admits chief exec

On-Prem02 Nov 2016 | 4

Intel throws the ball long with sports, VR and IoT cash injections

Chip giant puts $38m into next generation of digital tech

On-Prem24 Oct 2016 | 1

Cloudera tells bright Sparks: Go teach yourselves Hadoop

Online DIY courses gotta be less tedious than teaching GCHQ's finest, right?

Software10 Oct 2016 | 5

MariaDB: MaxScale 2.0 given the full SSL streaming Monty

Generally available now

Databases03 Oct 2016 |

Big data and the cloud: It's not even that scary

Sysadmin blog Don't believe the marketeers

On-Prem30 Sep 2016 | 2

Startup iguazio launches NVMe-propelled missile at enterprise analytics

Wall St-beating PaaS for Big Data firm touts crazy performance claims

Storage27 Sep 2016 | 1

IBM, WanDisco, DataTorrent and pals sign Hadoop interoperability pact

ODPi boasts of big enterprise names joining scheme

Networks27 Sep 2016 |

Brit boffins get $800k for Los Angeles Twitter pre-crime tech

Department of Justice cash will develop Minority Report-style tool using social media data

Legal22 Sep 2016 | 13

Financial Conduct Authority: No need to look any closer at insurers’ use of Big Data

We asked them and they said it's all good, so we're happy

On-Prem21 Sep 2016 | 3

Self-service-as-a-service startup Trifacta releases newest product version

No more programming tears, claims firm

Software20 Sep 2016 |

Just not cricket: Microsoft's big data Googly called No Ball

Redmond's Duckworth Lewis Method revamp rejected by the stats wonk who runs it

SaaS12 Sep 2016 | 33

Tableau 10 is generally available, complete with visual tweaks

They made their own custom font. No, really

On-Prem10 Aug 2016 | 8

No supercomputer cash? Time for a systems squeeze

Some advice when you're trading off information for performance

On-Prem08 Aug 2016 | 1

Hortonworks losses deepen despite growth in subscription sales

Unprofitable firm still down on market expectations

Channel05 Aug 2016 | 3

Ready for the Internet of Things big data firehose?

Sipping gently, if you can...

Edge + IoT04 Aug 2016 | 3

Biz data wrangler's lost its head and gained another. Let's have a look at the Tera...data

Geddit? We mean the numbers. Financial results. Oh forget it

On-Prem03 Aug 2016 | 1

Fancy hacking Man City? Happy days: Footy club to host hackathon

Moneyball-style data crunching applied to the beautiful game

Security29 Jun 2016 | 6

Datastax comes for Oracle's lunch with new graph database release

Co-founder: I think graph is going to be big

Software22 Jun 2016 | 1

Sparkling new Spark distribution spurs MapR to reduce MapReduce

Big data bods release new thing, snuggle up to Apache

Software06 Jun 2016 | 5

China gets big data fever, backed by security push

Government promises more data-sharing and analytics of everything

Legal27 May 2016 | 3

Lie back and think of cybersecurity: IBM lets students loose on Watson

Elementary

Security12 May 2016 | 16

Neo4j CEO: We're at 'a huge inflection point for graph databases'

Interview Swede also speeks his branes on Saint Richard of Stallman

On-Prem28 Apr 2016 | 16

Panama Papers graph database cracked open for world+dog

Interview Gaze upon your masters' finances, sheeple

Databases27 Apr 2016 | 34

CERN publishes massive data set

Take a bite of some seriously big data

Science26 Apr 2016 | 29

Hortonworks CEO tells El Reg: 'Clearly there's a lot of work to do'

Interview Brave claim from big data business boss: We will make money

Channel21 Apr 2016 | 3

Teradata launches mutant cloud, hopes IoT megabucks start flowing

But who will analyse the internet of product announcements' data?

On-Prem18 Apr 2016 | 3

Big data in action: How CompSci theory helps medics fight cancer

UCL professor to lecture at next Real Time Club dinner

Networks11 Apr 2016 | 6

Wikibon goes big on Big Data

Comment Four reports show Wikiboners have Big Data hard-on

Storage08 Apr 2016 |

MariaDB enters analytics market while prepping for massive Series C

+ Logo change on the way for the Bernie Sanders of big data

Software05 Apr 2016 | 5

Mobe and Wi-Fi firms flog your location data to commercial firms, claim reports

That's why you're seeing loads of massage parlour ads

Networks05 Apr 2016 | 23

Microsoft's DocumentDB lets its MongoDB freak flag fly

Get your NoSQL ting on, rascals

Software01 Apr 2016 | 1

Military intelligence, AI style: MoD cosies up to Massive Analytic

Who needs humans to task drone strikes, anyway?

Software31 Mar 2016 | 16

Google fills BigQuery with public data, invites world+dog to play

You'll never guess how much it costs

Software30 Mar 2016 | 4

Hadoop rebels unleash spec to battle the Cloudera/MapR empire

ODPi publishes runtime spec and test suite

Software29 Mar 2016 |

Big data boffins crunch GPS traces, find altruistic route planning is good for everyone

Except, darn it, the nice guys still probably finish last

Science17 Mar 2016 | 50

F-me! Couchbase yoinks $30m in yet another fundraising round

We are about to IPO, I think, this time we will, I'm sure of it, says CEO Wiederhold

On-Prem15 Mar 2016 | 1

HPE unleashes Machine Learning-as-a-service on Microsoft Azure

A nice and cold pint of machine learning for a warm winter's day

Channel11 Mar 2016 | 3

MapR whips out a pack of ACEs, eyes up containing Docker users

Containers aren't persistent. Our thingy is, promises firm

Devops08 Mar 2016 | 1

Sparks fly as HPE and Hortonworks hold hands for data mould

You want batch computations? Step into our database love nest

Software03 Mar 2016 |

MapR acquires Geneva Lake to embiggen its worldwide reach

Also takes on former Coca-Cola chap

On-Prem26 Feb 2016 | 7

Google opens Cloud Vision API beta, world + dog asked to try it

60 cents to run OCR on 1,000 images. Not bad

Networks19 Feb 2016 | 7

Meet the original Big Data, TED Talk, Thought Shower Futurist

Andrew at Large Reg man talks digital economy, creeping existential unease

Legal19 Feb 2016 | 16

Apache Foundation rushes out Arrow as 'Top-Level Project'

... then it took an Arrow to the TLP

Networks17 Feb 2016 | 13

Spark man Zaharia on 2.0 and why it's 'not that important' to upstage MapReduce

Interview Matei tells us about his brainchild

On-Prem15 Feb 2016 | 2

De-anonymising data should be a criminal offence, says MPs report

Although that could be a bit of a problem under the new EU rules...

Legal12 Feb 2016 | 32

Data wranglers Trifacta wangle themselves $35m in VC cash

In Brief Self-service-as-a-Service. Clear? Good

On-Prem10 Feb 2016 |

MapR says Q4 revenue embiggenment was down to ex-Oracle chap

Privately held firm boasts about ever-bigger claimed numbers

On-Prem10 Feb 2016 |