The oil and gas industries are facing major challenges – the costs of extraction are rising and the turbulent state of international politics adds to the difficulties of exploration and drilling for new reserves. In the face of big problems, its key players are turning to Big Data in the

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,

Big data is all the rage these days. But Insead Professor Joerg Niessing says the term is misleading. And that’s only the first of many myths that can lead companies astray, as they consider the vast storehouses of data that technology can amass and help sort. More>>

FIRST WE HAD the Wine Lake. Then there was the Butter Mountain. Now, thanks to the EMC Federation, we have the Business Data Lake. Combining storage and big data technologies from EMC, Pivotal and VMWare, the Federation Business Data Lake (FBDL)... More>>

Relational data warehouses served communications service providers well in the past, but it’s time to start thinking beyond columns and rows. Unstructured data will be the fuel that powers risk management and decision-making in the near future. More>>

Examining your cyber data from a data-centric approach provides your analysts with the insight needed to better understand how and where adversaries are attacking your enterprise. More>>

Big data made a huge leap forward in 2014 in terms of the increased adoption of big data technologies among enterprises. Where is big data heading in 2015? More>>