One of the critical decisions facing companies embarking on big data projects is which database to use, and often that decision swings between SQL and NoSQL. SQL has the impressive track record, the ...

The explosion of new types of data in great volumes from many different sources that has come to be known as big data has resulted in a false premise that lurks on the sidelines of many discussions.

We are fortunate to live in an exciting time where multiple technological leaps are occurring. Specifically, I am thinking of the mobile industry transition from 4G to 5G, and the cross-industry IT ...

You can’t separate successful mobile application development from either data or analytics. Consumers demand immediate insight into their “mobile moments” -- exact points in time where context and ...

We don't much care for big government using big data to monitor phone calls; and we worry about how many big data databases we may be in and for what purposes. In fact, by 2020, according to and EMC ...

This paper, compiled by Prof. Huadong Guo and his team, discusses the potential and utility of Big Earth Data through a number of case studies to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Many of the conversations taking place around the Internet of Things (IoT) are incomplete without a mention of big data. Connected devices, sensors, and algorithms all operate in ways that involve ...

With demands for agility and capacity, storage systems can't be islands. IBM's Ronald Riffe explains how software-defined storage provides a broad, hardware-independent solution The movement to ...

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