In May 2011, the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company released a research report titled Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. This was a seminal report, ...

To take advantage of Big Data, agencies must ensure their technology stacks — including storage, servers, networking capacity and analysis software — are up to the task. Federal agencies, like ...

Big data, defined as an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large or complex that it becomes difficult to process using traditional data processing applications, continues to be a ...

Note: I’ve had the eminent thought leader Esteban Kolsky, founder and managing principal of ThinkJar, doing guest posts before on this blog. Time and again, the guy simply nails what the core of ...

Big data ruled as one of the most popular tech topics of 2013, drawing reader interest along many different angles of coverage. Whether focused on careers and education, emerging platforms and ...

Companies have been embarking on big data initiatives for many years. Often, these were IT driven solutions looking for problems to solve. IT professionals understood that if they could bring many ...

Digital transformation, while not new, has changed tremendously with the advent of new technologies for big data analytics and machine learning. The key to most company's digital transformation ...

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Big-data solutions, essentially, are software solutions aimed at analyzing large data sets. From a corporate perspective, this could include all the data produced via internal workflows, externally ...

"Big data isn't just a buzzword or a passing fad; it is a fundamental, increasingly 'table stakes' capability for companies in all sectors," said Matt Zisow, director of product at online retailer ...

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 ...

There are three buzzwords that, if we had our way, would be stricken completely from the world: “cloud,” “the Internet of Things,” and “big data.” Each of them was coined in an attempt to elegantly ...