Kaushik Pal provides some samples and tips on how to use Apache Pig for  efficient analysis of large data sets.

Insurance companies say the website is sending them bad data.

The company will sell OpenStack systems to enterprises that want to set up private cloud computing environments.

The company just released the IDE in November.

Given the recent row in the usually staid Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) world, when the Government of France was caught red-handed with forged SSL certificates, can we trust PKI at all anymore?

Many agencies of the US federal government follow a procurement policy that goes by the name Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) to select the lowest cost provider among all suitable providers for any IT project. However, it almost always backfires.

This step-by-step tutorial explores how to install PhoneGap on Windows and MAC OS X using the command-line interface.

Integrate the JVM into the OS kernel. Strip out everything in the OS that the hypervisor is taking care of (like network access) or that the JVM doesn’t need. What you end up with is an lean mean runtime-specific machine that runs much faster than a normal VM, and is more secure as well, simply because there is much less of it to hack.

We're finally figuring out how to collect store, analyze, and manage far larger and more diverse data sets across the enterprise. We can’t let Big Data be just another management fad.

Kaushik Pal explores the basics of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), the underlying file system of the Apache Hadoop framework.