This blog is about an industry area that has come to be called “Big Data.” The excitement around Big Data is huge; the mere fact that the term is capitalized implies a lot of respect. A number of ...

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), ...

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 ...

Faced with the ongoing confusion over the term ‘Big Data,’ here’s a handy – and somewhat cynical – guide to some of the key definitions of big data that you might see out there. The first thing to ...

People love to talk about big data. But people across all industries seem to offer different definitions of what big data actually is. University of California Berkeley School of Information asked ...

Samuel Arbesman, an applied mathematician and network scientist, is a senior scholar at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the author of "The Half-Life of Facts." Follow him on Twitter: ...

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 ...

The massive amounts of data collected over time that are difficult to analyze and handle using common database management tools. The data are analyzed for marketing trends in business as well as in ...

Today at the TNW Latin American conference in Sao Paulo, Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels’ led the morning with a keynote on big data, and how it is best approached. We have a few juicy quotes following ...

Everyone is getting it on with Big Data. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone. From the Mad (Ad) Men on Madison Avenue to the Obama Administration to Cyber Criminals, Investment Bankers, Insurers, ...