Cloudera, DDN and MapR all have big data announcements, rolled out at the O'Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara.

EMC announced Pivotal HD, a new distribution of Apache Hadoop, this week. It features native integration of EMC's Greenplum massively parallel processing database with Apache Hadoop.

How did an expired SSL certificate crash the Windows Azure storage cloud computing platform Friday and Saturday? It's an expensive question for Microsoft, which is offering service credits to users.

Teradata Aster Discovery Platform 5.10, a comprehensive discovery solution with more than 20 new big data analytic capabilities, including purpose-built visualizations, was announced by data analytics company Teradata.

Red Hat announced it will contribute its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plug-in to the Apache Hadoop open community later this year, adding another component to the big data ecosystem.

As big data continues to be collected more commercial businesses are seeing the high value of analyzing that data, and are choosing partners who specialize in large data set analytics to assist with extracting business insight from petabytes of...

API management firm Apigee has launched Apigee Insights, a big data analytics platform that lets organizations gain new business insights using "broad" data generated in the app economy.

Web optimization company Cedexis launched Cedexis Fusion, a component of its Software as a Service platform to integrate big data flows from third-party tools, CDNs and clouds to enable a wide range of performance, availability and cost-for...