Most Americans can't recognize 2FA, HTTPS, or private browsingOnly 2% of 4,200+ survey takers answered all ten questions correctly in a very basic tech quiz.October 9, 2019 by Catalin Cimpanu in Security
BitYota launches, eyes data warehousing as a serviceThe Andreessen Horowitz-backed big data startup aims to be the "equivalent of Salesforce.com for data warehousing."November 28, 2012 by Larry Dignan in Cloud
Big data: How the revolution may play outBig data pilots in 2012 will go production in 2013 and 2014. Then the real fun begins. November 26, 2012 by Larry Dignan in Big Data
Play VideoWhy data scientists are in demand and how they enable big dataJust as big data is one of the hottest topics in IT, data scientist is one of the hottest jobs. IBM's James Kobielus explains what the role involves and why it's so important.November 16, 2012 by Jason Hiner in Big Data
ZDNet Techlines: Big Data debunked event (gallery)ZDNet's Big Data Techline Webcast was held on Oct. 4 in New York City. It brought together some of the leading Big Data experts from around the country to share their insights. Here's a photo gallery showing off the event.November 16, 2012 by Andy Smith in Big Data
NetApp: Storage spending has a lot of nuanceNetApp CEO Tom Georgens captures the tug-of-war big data projects will face: "There is a natural data growth of the creation of new data, but that doesn't mean that spending goes up automatically."November 15, 2012 by Larry Dignan in Storage
Big data: brainstorming the possibilitiesAt the Techonomy conference in Tucson, industry leaders joined to predict how big data could be used in the future.November 12, 2012 by Andrew Nusca in Big Data
Play VideoHow NASA is harnessing big data from Mars missions to satellitesNASA's Nicholas Skytland explains how NASA had to build its own big data capabilities and how it's dealing with the enormous data sets from space missions.November 9, 2012 by Jason Hiner in Big Data
Big data search startup Elasticsearch raises $10m"The big data dark ages are now finally behind us," the company's founders say, and they now have the money to prove it.November 8, 2012 by Andrew Nusca in Big Data
eHarmony translates big data into love and cashFrom a patented questionnaire to monitoring user activity, eHarmony has used a torrent of data to help people find significant others on its online dating website, and made some dosh in the process.November 5, 2012 by Spandas Lui in Big Data
Play VideoWhy Hadoop is a catalyst for big dataKatrina Montinola of Archimedes explains why Hadoop is a big deal for big data, and how her company got unexpected benefits from implementing it.November 2, 2012 by Jason Hiner in Big Data
Big data: Why it's really an architecture challengeFor big data to amount to a serious asset that business and operations can exploit, datacentres will have to take a long, hard look at infrastructure and architecture.October 31, 2012 by Lori MacVittie in Big Data