Our most recent event, "Big Data Debunked - Finding the Data Signals," was held on October 4, 2012 in New York City. Watch the discussion here.
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Most Americans can't recognize 2FA, HTTPS, or private browsing
Only 2% of 4,200+ survey takers answered all ten questions correctly in a very basic tech quiz.
BitYota launches, eyes data warehousing as a service
The Andreessen Horowitz-backed big data startup aims to be the "equivalent of Salesforce.com for data warehousing."
Big data: How the revolution may play out
Big data pilots in 2012 will go production in 2013 and 2014. Then the real fun begins.
NetApp: Storage spending has a lot of nuance
NetApp 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."
Big data: brainstorming the possibilities
At the Techonomy conference in Tucson, industry leaders joined to predict how big data could be used in the future.
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.
eHarmony translates big data into love and cash
From 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.
Big data: Why it's really an architecture challenge
For 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.
Big data steps closer to mainstream
Big data projects haven't hit an inflection point yet, but the signs are beginning to add up. Here's what to look for to indicate big data has it business prime time.
Cloudera aims to bring real-time queries to Hadoop, big data
Cloudera's Impala open source project is now a public beta. The company also launches a real-time query services as its second subscription offering.
Mobile, actionable data dominates Gartner's 2013 tech trends
Mobile device management, HTML5, personal clouds and actionable data will be among the key disruptive forces in 2013 for companies.
IBM eyes vertical applications for big data
Steve Mills, IBM's senior vice president in charge of software and systems, said most companies are thinking vertical applications with their big data pilots.
Can big data engineer marketing influence?
Data architects and marketers will take psychology patterns and unleash the algorithms to create influence engineering, a new sales generating discipline.
Sears keeps Teradata analytics platform, eyes private cloud
Sears is consolidating its analytics and big data infrastructure and going open source as much as possible. Teradata is sticking around at the retailer.
Big data projects: Is the hardware infrastructure overlooked?
Aside from a few detours into storage, the actual infrastructure underneath big data applications is often overlooked. It shouldn't be.
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.
Why data scientists are in demand and how they enable big data
Just 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.
How NASA is harnessing big data from Mars missions to satellites
NASA'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.
Why Hadoop is a catalyst for big data
Katrina Montinola of Archimedes explains why Hadoop is a big deal for big data, and how her company got unexpected benefits from implementing it.
How big data is transforming health care and predictive analytics
Jon Parks of Grapevine Technologies explains the impact that big data is having in health care and how the ultimate end game is predictive analytics.
How M2M and Big Data will combine to produce everyday benefits
Ford's Michael Cavaretta explains how machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things will combine with Big Data to provide some big benefits for business.
How big data is being used today: Three ways
In this interview with ZDNet, T-Mobile's Christine Twiford explains the three primary ways that she sees big data being used right now.
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TechLines: cloud adaptability
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TechLines: cloud security and reliability
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TechLines: cloud benefits
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TechLines: not all clouds are equal
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