Graph analysis will push big data evolution to the next plateau of scale and sophistication. Hadoop is one segment of the evolutionary picture, but it’s not necessarily the centerpiece.

Hadoop, the Elephant in the Room The iPhone’s personal assistant, Siri, is backed by a Mesos cluster comprised of thousands of machines storing data in HDFS, the Hadoop File System. Hadoop’s logo is a ...

SGI ready day-and-date with Cloudera cluster, MarkLogic appliance, based on new generation of Xeon CPUs. Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor Sept. 10, 2013, 12:00 p.m. PT ...

VMware tests of Big Data workloads have shown that virtualized Spark cluster performance can exceed physical cluster performance by up to 10 percent. Simplified Compute Node Creation — Adding more ...

Today Cavium announced a new partnership that will position the University of Michigan as a leader in data-intensive scientific research by creating a powerful Big Data computing cluster using dual ...

Gov. Deval Patrick, meanwhile, announced several state programs he hopes will foster a cluster of such “big data” companies in Massachusetts. He said Massachusetts is “the premium location ...