15 Big Data Technology Developments You Should Know About

Big Doings In Big Data

It's been a busy couple of weeks in the big data universe as startups and established companies launch new business analytics and data management products and unveil updates to existing products with new features and capabilities.

While these technologies are all over the map, some common themes run throughout them: providing business users with easier access to more data, better ways to manage huge volumes of data and prepare it for analysis, and working with emerging big data technologies like Spark, HAWQ and Geode.

Here's a look at 15 big data announcements that caught our eye. Many, but not all, were unveiled at the recent Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose, Calif.