A 13-foot-long python isn’t exactly what most parents would like to see their 5-year-old daughter cuddled up with. Sonny and Cher, a pair of reticulated pythons, live in a London, England, home with ...

At the heart of Apache Spark is the concept of the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), a programming abstraction that represents an immutable collection of objects that can be split across a ...

After an absence of about a year, and a stint as Research Director at the now defunct Gigaom Research, I've returned to ZDNet to cover Big Data. The year went by pretty quickly, but a number of things ...