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Pentaho Corporation today announced that it has made freely available under open source all the big data capabilities in its Kettle v4.3 release, and has moved the entire Pentaho Kettle

Hadoop seems to be on everyone's minds this year. It's certainly a hot topic for Forrester's James Kobielus, who's recently released several reports on Hadoop – including a best practices

The huge problem for online services is that traditional SQL database managers don't scale up when database sizes approach "exascale" - the tremendous and fast-growing repositories needed by services like

The news this week about firing Carol Bartz, Yahoo's CEO, made us go into the Wayback Machine to recall the many good things that Yahoo has created over its life.

This week Microsoft announced its intentions to bring Hadoop to SQL Server and Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW). PDW was introduced last year and brought centralized data warehousing capabilities to

It's hard to keep track of all the database-related terms you hear these days. What constitutes "big data"? What is NoSQL, and why are your developers so interested in it?

This week Pentaho rolled out an update for Pentaho 4 that expands its open core business intelligence platform's native support for big data sources. Pentaho now supports Apache Hadoop,

Last month Twitter acquired social media analytics company BackType. Much of BackType's technology (such as ElephantDB and Cascalog) are already open source, and this week Twitter announced that BackType's

Cloudera and Dell today announced an agreement to sell a complete Apache Hadoop solution. The package will include Dell hardware (including Dell PowerEdge C2100 servers and PowerConnect switches), Cloudera's

Rumors have been circulating for the past few months that Yahoo would create its own Apache Hadoop commercialization company to compete with Cloudera. Today GigaOM's Derrick Harris reports that

LexisNexis announced today that it will open-source its High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) technology, as well as offer an enterprise version with commercial support. The company is positioning HPCC

Earlier today we covered EMC's new Apache Hadoop distribution. It joins other commercial Hadoop products such as Appistry CloudIQ Storage Hadoop Edition, Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop, DataStax Brisk,

EMC World is taking place in Las Vegas today. In addition to the announcement of EMC's own Apache Hadoop appliance and distribution, several other companies have announced new products

The nation's cryptologic intelligence agency is moving towards a cloud-centric approach to computing. In an interview with Information Week, National Security Agency CIO Lonny Anderson talks about the cloud,

Jaspersoft, vendors of the open core business intelligence application of the same name, today announced new reporting tools designed to handle big data. It's adding more than a dozen

This year enterprise 2.0 went from being a fringe idea to being mainstream as CIOs started asking "how?" instead of "why?" Big name vendors entered the marketplace with new

Earlier this morning the Internet was buzzing with news first reported by The New York Times Bits blog: Doug Cutting was leaving Yahoo. In specific, he was leaving Yahoo for