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Seriously, What Is Big Data? Recently, Forbes, UC Berkeley, and Inside-BigData all took to the Internet to define one of today's biggest phenomenons—big data. Among them, they offered more than fifty different definitions of big data and what it means to disparate people. So, really, what is big data? |
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Government Cloud Implementation Moving Slower than Expected The US government is one of the most prominent participants in the race to the cloud, putting a great deal of capital out there for different services to fight over. But the government might not have as big a piece of its computing pie up in the sky as you’d first expect. |
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Cloud Storage Isn't Always the Right Answer Not every company needs to take all of its valuable data and move it directly to the cloud. Although this computing technology comes with a host of benefits for both big and small organizations, there are a few key reasons why physical storage is still a smart option. |
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Graffiti Goes Digital with Google’s Street Art Project The Paris-based Google Cultural Institute, essentially a virtual museum that curates and preserves cultural content for online audiences, has unveiled its latest endeavor: Google’s Street Art Project—an ongoing collection of iconic art from streets across the globe. |
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The Internet Bleeds Again: eBay Hack Confirmed Last week, it was rumored that eBay’s corporate network was hacked. Later in the week, eBay confirmed the attack. The security breach, which could affect 150 million active users, leads to more speculation on how safe the Internet actually is, especially in the aftermath of the Heartbleed bug. |
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How the Weather Company Is Using Big Data to Stay ahead of the Storm The Weather Company is moving to a NoSQL-powered big-data platform, which can gather some twenty terabytes of weather data a day. The NoSQL environment’s ability to scale to extremely large sizes helps with the intake of this additional data, and faster queries mean quicker, more accurate forecasts. |
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The Internet a Decade from Now The Internet has come a long way in twenty-five years—from something that most people didn't know much about to something more than half of adults surveyed by Pew Research Center said would now be nearly impossible to give up. Read on for what the Internet might mean to society in ten more years. |
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Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Leads to Crowdsourcing Search Party Satellite imaging company DigitalGlobe is posting photos of the sea where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is likely to have gone down and asking for the public’s help to comb through them. Its pictures map thousands of square miles, prompting a crowdsourcing effort to scour the open water for evidence. |
