A few years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can ...

Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning “Big Data” market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop ...

Wayne Kernochan writes that Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL are not like some IT trends of the past; when it comes to Big Data they matter today and have a major role to play going forward. As it turns ...