Big Data is attracting big money -- $100 million at Accel Partners, the VC firm. “Big data is one of the biggest transformational changes in the data center and IT landscape,” said Ping Li, a ...

Big data is a moving target, and it comes in waves: before the dust from each wave has settled, new waves in data processing paradigms rise. Streaming, aka real-time / unbounded data processing ...

Over the past few decades, data generation has veritably exploded. However, the ‘Big Data paradigm’ is not so much concerned with the volume of that data, but how businesses and, indeed ...

Big data are part of a paradigm shift that is significantly transforming statistical agencies, processes, and data analysis. While administrative and satellite data are already well established, the ...

Big data solutions are not limited to analytics but also encompass data processing paradigms like batch processing, real-time processing and iterative processing. This versatility allows them to ...

It’s the problem posed by the so-called “3 Vs of big data” — volume, velocity and variety — all of which make it a challenge to collect, store and process everything in real time. That’s where ...

Information is power. Businesses have always actively collected information on customers and their behavior, both online and offline, and they are continually interpreting a flood of information ...

If your company needs high-performance computing for its big data, an in-house operation might work best. Here's what you need to know, including how high-performance computing and Hadoop differ.