In a comment on FCW's April 15 article, "Sketching the big picture on big data," a reader offered a definition of the term: An easily scalable system of unstructured data with accompanying tools that ...

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 ...

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), ...

Pinning down what qualifies as Big Data — and whether it’s an educational panacea or a corporate-driven technological phase — is sure to be at the center of educational technology discussions for ...

While there's lots of talk (a lot of talk) about big data these days, according to Andrew Brust, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, there currently is no good, authoritative definition of big data. ...

Big Data refers to massive volumes of structured and unstructured data that are too large or complex for traditional data processing tools. It's not just about size — it's also about the insights that ...

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 ...

As the volume of coverage implies, there’s something important going on here, perhaps even transformational. The enormous amount of information being generated and collected daily by websites, ...

To ensure big data is used to influence outcomes that are meaningful to the nursing profession, nurse executives need to act as data visionaries and architects. Have you ever found yourself poring ...

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 ...

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 ...