In this special guest feature, Todd Hinton, VP Engineering and Data Management at RedPoint Global, discusses how big data has conquered the world, but as with any technology, you need to proceed with ...

The trouble with Google Flu Trends might not be “big data hubris” as charged by a recent analysis in the journal Science, but rather that Google’s data simply wasn’t big enough to be sufficiently ...

If your dataset is so voluminous, or it arrives at such high velocity, or it contains such great variety, that you must reimagine the way you use it—you have a big data problem. Google, for example, ...

Taming the data deluge is a challenge itself but it presents different problems depending on whether you're a government agency or a private-sector business. Big data may be on everyone’s lips but as ...

Gartner predicts 80% of B2B sales interactions between suppliers and buyers are expected to occur in digital channels by 2025. As more global commerce moves online, B2B organizations are struggling to ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the AI promised land: People realized they need data. In fact, they realized they need large quantities of a wide variety of data, and that it would be better if ...

Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As a result, there’s a lot of mythology around big data. Those myths can ...

Many sales teams have access to automation tools for better visibility. However, when you consider that the average sales rep has from 20 to 50 open sales opportunities at any given time, using those ...

It’s still unclear exactly how the National Security Agency (NSA) is carrying out digital surveillance on us. But we know one thing for sure: the government is collecting a whole lot of data. And ...

IN 2009 A NEW FLU virus was discovered. Combining elements of the viruses that cause bird flu and swine flu, this new strain, dubbed H1N1, spread quickly. Within weeks, public health agencies around ...

Supercomputer company Cray has created a new division that will sell big-data systems, the company has announced. The division will market its offerings to large enterprises, which will be a new kind ...