As the big data industry continues to steamroll ahead, one conundrum persists – exactly how do you define it? A new report from the MIT Technology Review addresses this issue by examining definitions ...

Big data can solve every business problem you have, transform society for the better, and possibly cure your fallen arches — if you believe the firestorm of ultra-positive hype on the subject. In an ...

Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what does it really mean? When does data become big? At a recent Big Data and High Performance Computing Summit in Boston hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), ...

One implication of ubiquitous sensing as evidenced by the rapid growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the explosive increase in data being collected. This data comes from myriad sources: According ...

Over the past decade, Big Data changed the way organizations gather, process, and analyze different types of information. The latter has become more customer-centric. It means that every single ...

Big data is often differentiated by the four V’s: velocity, veracity, volume and variety. Researchers assign various measures of importance to each of the metrics, sometimes treating them equally, ...

Even though ‘big data’ has now been around for several years, the opportunities for startups seem to keep growing, just as the amount of data keeps growing. According to IBM, companies have captured ...

As businesses continue to harness Big Data to drive innovation, customer engagement and operational efficiency, they increasingly find themselves walking a tightrope between data utility and user ...

Some ten years ago, I started writing about what we then called "big data" for ZDNet; in fact, I was the first person at ZDNet focused on it exclusively. Coming from a consulting background in ...