Hot Market, Cool Technology

Big data analytics remains one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry with market researcher Wikibon predicting that the worldwide market for big data analytics hardware, software and services will nearly double from $27.4 billion last year to $50 billion in 2018.

Sales for visual data discovery tools are exploding. And it seems that hardly a day passes without some new Hadoop-related software or cloud-based analytics application being introduced. We're also seeing interesting trends as big data analytics technology is applied to IT security and tools for analyzing the huge volumes of data generated by Internet-of-Things devices begin to hit the market.

Here's 10 big data products that debuted in the first half of this year that caught our attention.

For more on the "coolest" of 2015, check out "CRN's Tech Midyear In Review."