In this special guest feature, Todd Hinton, VP Engineering and Data Management at RedPoint Global, discusses how big data has conquered the world, but as with any technology, you need to proceed with ...

Taming the data deluge is a challenge itself but it presents different problems depending on whether you're a government agency or a private-sector business. Big data may be on everyone’s lips but as ...

If your dataset is so voluminous, or it arrives at such high velocity, or it contains such great variety, that you must reimagine the way you use it—you have a big data problem. Google, for example, ...

Gartner predicts 80% of B2B sales interactions between suppliers and buyers are expected to occur in digital channels by 2025. As more global commerce moves online, B2B organizations are struggling to ...

Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As a result, there’s a lot of mythology around big data. Those myths can ...

IN 2009 A NEW FLU virus was discovered. Combining elements of the viruses that cause bird flu and swine flu, this new strain, dubbed H1N1, spread quickly. Within weeks, public health agencies around ...

It’s still unclear exactly how the National Security Agency (NSA) is carrying out digital surveillance on us. But we know one thing for sure: the government is collecting a whole lot of data. And ...

Founded in 2012, Pepperdata Inc. is a big data infrastructure management company that has grown by moving its cost-savings solutions from on-premises to the cloud. In doing so, Pepperdata has formed a ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note that it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The Big Data trend ...

Millions of people are struggling with conditions caused by neurological damage or disease, with impacts ranging from speech problems to total paralysis. The future of treatment for many of them may ...

Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind ...