Demand for big data skills are on the rise and aren't limited to just NoSQL and Hadoop but also include Python and general cloud skills.

Scientists and mathematicians have long loved Python as a vehicle for working with data and automation. Python has not lacked for libraries such as Hadoopy or Pydoop to work with Hadoop, but those ...

Talend Open Studio for Big Data is based on Talend Open Studio, augmented with native support for Apache Hadoop. In addition, Talend Open Studio for Big Data will be bundled in Hortonworks' Apache ...

Along with lifting the lid on the Open Data Platform Hadoop initiative, cloud firm Pivotal is strengthening its ties with Hortonworks and open-sourcing core big-data technology.

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways.