The latest enhancements to Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse are mainly about empowering non-IT users.

When you're dealing with massive amounts of data, it makes sense to process it where it is stored. A forthcoming update from Cohesity will make it possible to process secondary data in situ.

Dell EMC has announced a family of preconfigured systems for AI applications, along with supporting services.

Vodafone New Zealand has used data analytics to overcome limitations to tailoring marketing and selling of pre-paid mobile plans to specific market segments, particularly the country’s youth market.

When a bunch of open source devotees get together, the results can be quite astounding. In eight short years, Cloudera has become number five on the Forbes Cloud 100 list. As for the “pay it forward” reference – see the comments at the end.

MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has released a new version of its MaxScale proxy software.

The first Apache Hadoop Summit in the Asia-Pacific region will be held in Melbourne at the Crown Conference Centre on 31 August and 1 September.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced new and updated members of its Helion cloud product line.

There was a time where the name Cray was synonymous not only with blazingly fast supercomputers, but good interior design as well. But supercomputers have changed, the cloud has come, and things move on.

EMC's new Neutrino nodes are designed to simplify the provisioning of IaaS stacks such as OpenStack, VMware Photon and Apache Hadoop.

“How can I say this nicely? Companies that are not analytics-driven will simply cease to exist!”

Continuing the move away from its 'box shifter' past, Dell is reinforcing its big data message with the release of a major update for the Statistica analytics software and the announcement of addtional Analytics-as-a-Service.

MapR's Hadoop distribution is now available from the AWS Marketplace.

The new version of Pivotal Big Data Suite delivers wide-ranging improvements.

EMC's Federation Business Data Lake is a pre-integrated big data system that can be installed and running in just seven days for a 1PB configuration.

Australian users of the Tableau analytics and visualisation software seem keen to get their hands on the next major release.

Big data is being underutilised by businesses around the world, including those in Australia. But one company thinks it has a way of unlocking its value.

Global Unified Identity Management software vendor Centrify has released what it says is the industry’s first privileged identity management solution for Apache Hadoop-based big data infrastructures, coinciding with an announcement of new partnerships with big data vendors Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR Technologies.

Some of the biggest names in big data have announced a new industry consortium called the Open Data Platform (ODP).

Big data vendor Pivotal has announced what it says is the ‘world’s first open source-based, enterprise-class big data product suite.’