NVIDIA tackles GPU-powered big data, accelerated virtual desktops, and a visual computing appliance, unrolling multiple announcements at its GPU Tech Conference in San Jose this week.

It's been a week full of big events for big data and analytics. In the news: MapR closes $30 million in funding, Hortonworks expands its European operations, and Gartner sees Big Data entering "trough of disillusionment."

MongoDB is hot. 10gen has now released version 2.4 of MongoDB, which has a slew of new features and a new enterprise version to keep the MongoDB momentum going.

The UFC uses Aspira to move its content quickly, graduating from physical tapes used just a year and a half ago.

IBM Watson - a cognitive computer - starred on Jeopardy! a few years ago. Today, IBM is experimenting with offering a way to reach Watson through a cloud service, and recently asked USC students for creative ways to apply Watson to business and...

Cambridge-based sqrll is a big data company that makes an enterprise grade edition of the Apache Accumulo, a NoSQL database originally developed by the National Security Agency and now available to others as an open source software project via the...

NetApp (NTAP) is targeting big data and high performance computing customers with an expansion of its E-Series storage platform, featuring a new E5500 model promising to improve scale, density and uptime.

The "big data" community will get a global ranking system for data applications. The BigData Top 100 will create a counterpart to the Top500, the supercomputing rankings that have generated enormous interest in high performance. Charter members of...