Rohit Amarnath is CTO of Vertica, the Unified Analytics Platform, enabling predictive business insights based on a scalable architecture. So, what’s fueling all this growth? Based on my industry ...

This blog is about an industry area that has come to be called “Big Data.” The excitement around Big Data is huge; the mere fact that the term is capitalized implies a lot of respect. A number of ...

The fundamental data structure in a data processing system. Any unit of data defined for processing is a data element; for example, ACCOUNT NUMBER, NAME, ADDRESS and CITY. A data element is defined by ...

According to MarketsandMarkets™, the Software-Defined Data Center Market is expected to grow from USD 75.9 billion in 2024 to ...

Socrates is noted as saying, “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” This premise should dominate how mission-oriented organizations communicate with the rest of the world, but it’s ...

Think the past year was a busy one for the data center industry? Spoiler alert: Expect more of the same in 2025, with a few twists. As the digital backbone of the economy, data center providers had ...

The analysis, classification and maintenance of an organization's data and data relationships. Data administration includes the development of data models and data dictionaries, which, combined with ...

Bubbling around and through the advertising ecosystem is what some have called “Big Data.” Is it demo data? Location data? Or data from that little mouseover you just did with the graphic appended to ...

Over the course of his two-day testimony in Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly returned to a few particular points, ones that ostensibly serve to quell the rising privacy concerns in ...