Big Data includes tons of unstructured content, from PDFs to video files. Manufacturers now have to pay more attention to the unstructured content in order to get their arms about Big Data. While much of the Big Data, such as database files, is structured, one of the biggest challenges is

It’s still a relational database (RDBMS) world, but Hadoop and NoSQL are starting to make a dent in the realm of structured data. That’s the key takeaway from a Dell Software-sponsored Unisphere survey, which finds that 75 percent of enterprise data remains under the lock and key of RDBMSes, primarily Oracle

Last year, data visualization company Adatao -- spearheaded by the former engineering director of Google Apps -- announced its Data Intelligence Platform, a tool set for querying Hadoop data that's meant to be as easy as putting together a document in Google Docs. Today Adatao announced general availability for the tool

Take a quick tour through the C-suite of any major corporation today, and there’s a good chance you’ll see some titles that weren’t there a few years ago: chief data officer, chief data scientist, chief analytics officer, to name just a few. Data is the element they all share in common,