Big Data is all the rage these days, as are its constituent technologies like Hadoop, NoSQL, and the mystical discipline of data science. But it turns out that understanding of, and a consensus ...

IT guru, Buck Woody, says, “Big data is the data that you aren’t able to process and use quickly enough with the technology you have now.” [2] But Big Data is more than “lots of data.” ...

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' Definition Evolving with Technology. 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 ...

By Svetlana Sicular Gartner, Inc. Volume, velocity and variety characteristics of information assets are not three parts of Gartner’s definition of big data, it is part one, and oftentimes ...