IBM has beefed up its big data options after announcing the BLU Accelerator and the PureData System for Hadoop.

Meg Whitman has insisted that HP is keeping Autonomy as it is still an important part in the overall big data picture

An Intel executive has outlined the chip giant's intentions in the server and data centre space at IDF Beijing

HP's ultra-low-power, hyperscale servers are designed to introduce a new and more sustainable architecture for the data centre

Tech could be used to convert analogue signals from the Big Bang into digital data

Two open source giants collaborate on Big Data tools

Google has promised not to sue open source developers and distributors over a list of 10 patents related to MapReduce, implemented in Apache Hadoop amongst others

Large-scale data as a service will let businesses combine the public web with private data, says Mark Little of Red Hat

Hadoop distribution provider MapR has now raised a total of $59m, and plans to use its latest funding for worldwide expansion as well as research and development

Microsoft has finally released the public preview of HDInsight Service, its cloud-based distribution of Hadoop