Next week opens one the largest Big Data events in the World: The O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York City. The event is set to draw thousands of Big Data enthusiasts into the city ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, it's great to see ...

DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time.