The music industry is stepping into the big data arena, reports Innovation Enterprise. Big data can help publishers better manage their music catalogs.

Analysis of healthcare data, such as who receives a flu shot and where can help prevent the spread of the flu, reports Forbes.

According to Forbes, Cloudera and Hortonworks have merged bringing and end to the to Hadoop era. In a sense, big data is becoming data, as more companies have access to data and the means to analyze it.