Take a look at the Apache Software Foundation's (ASF's) list of projects and you may feel overwhelmed. Between top-level and incubating projects, there are far too many to keep track of. Filtering ...

There’s no question about it: open source drives big data. Some may forget how the big data software we use or write about every day actually gets made. But here at the Apache: Big Data North America ...

You may have heard of this Apache Hadoop thing, used for Big Data processing along with associated projects like Apache Spark, the new shiny toy in the open source movement. They're among the most ...

Big data is making a big splash these days and open source technology is at the core of most of these big data initiatives. Here are 15 key open source big data technologies to keep an eye on. With ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. At the Data + AI Summit, the largest gathering of the open source data and AI community, Databricks announced ...

Big data analytics--the process of examining massive data sets containing a variety of data types to uncover hidden patterns, correlations and other strategic business and operational information--is ...

Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting. Those ...

Many of today’s hottest new enterprise technologies are centered around free, “open-source” technology. As a result, many big companies — from financial giants to retailers to services firms — are ...

Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, ...

Open-source source platforms for big data have exploded in popularity. And in the past few months, it seems like nearly everyone is feeling the fallout. Cost, flexibility and the availability of ...

It’s been 25 years since advocates of a liberal approach to software met at a conference in Palo Alto, Calif., and emerged with the term “Open Source.” At the time, the driving issues centered on ...