Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but its definition depends on who's doing the defining; AWS, IBM, and research firms each have their own definitions Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

The explosive use of big data, predictive analytics and other modeling techniques to help understand and drive outcomes in all types of organizations has significantly increased over the past decade.

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), ...