A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on ...

NoSQL and Hadoop—two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture—have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate—especially within ...

If your company isn’t a big data expert by now—well, you’re in good company. While the technology has been around for several years, it’s not a neatly packaged application anyone can just plug and ...

Companies moving beyond the pilot phase of their Big Data projects need to evaluate the partnership strategies of the Hadoop suppliers when picking a vendor, writes Wikibon.org Principal Research ...

“You can’t handle the truth.” We all remember Jack Nicholson’s iconic words in A Few Good Men as a seminal moment in pop culture. Yet, that statement has a lot of relevance for companies and their ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

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 ...

Hadoop isn’t living up to its hype -- which means that both Hadoop vendors and their customers need to widen their array of big data technologies Hadoop makes all the big data noise. Too bad it’s not ...

Pivotal, the Big Data spinoff from EMC and VMWare, has announced today its "Pivotal Big Data Suite," which it refers to as the industry's first Big Data Mega Bundle. The suite, available on a ...