IBM is investing more resources in the Apache Spark software to help relieve the stress of large-scale data processing. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help ...

There are two absolutes in the tech world today. One, businesses must go to the cloud. Two, data is the lifeblood of a company. Adapting to this new reality requires a whole new style of ...

Editor’s Note: Vaibhav Nivargi is the founder and chief architect of ClearStory Data, a data analytics service provider. This week the fast-growing Apache Spark community is gathering in New York City ...

Looking at programming languages, it seems that for a long time, safety or reliability was considered an afterthought, usually covered later in tools such as testing and static analysis, rather than ...

When we think about typefaces, it’s generally in connection with either printed material or online electronic text. Other low-level text — say the readout on a car dashboard or a washing machine or an ...

Every so often, a perfect combination comes along that makes so much sense it seems inevitable. Meet the newest combination: Spark software and the global real estate industry. Spark, headquartered in ...

Open-source software and Linux, thanks to Android, is well represented on tablets. But, if you didn't want to deal with proprietary firmware and software, you were out of luck... until now. Aaron ...