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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.