Mortar Takes Aim at Hadoop Usability

Young startup Mortar claims to make Hadoop more accessible to the people most responsible for garnering insight from big data: data scientists and engineers. The effort took flight with a couple of architects at Wireless Generation breaking off and starting their own company in Young and CTO Doug Daniels... Read more…

IBM’s Big Data Honeymoon in Vegas

This year IBM will be invading Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for its 2011 On-Demand conference. Taking center stage this year are sessions, keynotes and deep-dive technical hands-on training opportunities featuring the company's big data tools. Read more…