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Don’t worry about the file system for your precious Big Data, says Google – just keep it in our Cloud Storage.

The two darlings of Big Data have moved even closer together after 10gen added a raft of improvements for their Hadoop connector for MongoDB.

The two darlings of Big Data have moved even closer together after 10gen added a raft of improvements for their Hadoop connector for MongoDB.

There’s a new project in the Apache Incubator, as LinkedIn pushes their stream processing framework to the open source foundation.

The latest funding for the Californian company comes at the ideal time, with the area of expertise expected to tiptoe to $1bn by 2016.

After rigorous testing, the company spun out of VMware and EMC technologies have made their Hadoop stack available for download. But what makes it stand out?

The Cascading company reveal their plans following March’s $4m investment and unsurprisingly, it centres around the application framework.

JBoss parent company plans to build “robust network of partners” instead of rolling own Hadoop distribution.

The creator of Hadoop, Doug Cutting talks about the evolution of the project from purely an open source project to one of the most important technologies of the last 30 years. He looks at the changes taking place in the economics of large scale computing and what is possible with data, focusing on how integration with existing IT infrastructure is key to the success of Hadoop and other big data technologies. Doug then discusses how Big Data enables organizations to combine legacy data and new datasets in powerful/innovative ways, with examples for customer analytics, new products/services and real-time processes. Finally he looks at how to become a data driven organisation in the brave new big data world, where large scale analytics are made both possible and economica

We talked to the man behind the latest Big Data project set to simplify the entire process of getting analytics from your data.

Eclipse Strategic Developer Member and JCP member Talend yesterday unveiled the latest version of their data integration hub Open Studio, honing in on helping enterprises understand their data woes

The Hadoop vendor are the first to really capitalise on real-time with this new open source querying project. Will it pave the way for the rest to follow?

The second keynote of Tuesday was given by the Hadoop creator himself Doug Cutting, providing an excellent overview into Big Data and the project he founded.

With their competitors treading into the alpha waters of Hadoop 2.0, Hortonworks hold steady with their Data Platform adding in some nifty new features