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

Back in the early 1990s, you would sometimes hear this gag: “Two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” Although wildly inaccurate, this ...

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hospitals need to move from a lagging reactive traditional business intelligence and statistics stance into a leading proactive analytics approach. Put another way: It’s time for the ...