Pictures Make Sense of Big Data
Most people have trouble recalling strings of numbers that are longer than their phone numbers. So how do we begin to comprehend a hundred rows of data, let alone a thousand or a million or a billion rows?
That's the dilemma ...
Couchbase Announces Native NoSQL Database for Mobile App Development
Efforts to bring JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to mobile app development has taken a step forward with the announcement of Couchbase’s JSON Anywhere program allowing developers to bring JSON on the device, on the wire, and in the cloud. The ...
Why Businesses That Neglect Big Data Will Be Left Behind
One of the great concerns of social scientists in the 21st century has been the digital divide, a stratification of society into those who have new economy skills and those who do not.
The mobile internet and cheap handsets have helped ...
Internet of Things gives rise to era of big data
As businesses across the globe collect more and more data, the "Internet of Things" is increasingly looking like a reality. We are all interconnected, and with that connectivity comes boundless opportunity for companies and their individual employees to gather more ...
Beat the odds in the big data productivity battle
big dataIn the Gartner model, businesses will first enter a stage where they will innovate and experiment with big data. This will be followed by a period of optimism and very high expectations from IT and business management.
Gartner's next predicted ...