The latest developments in the tech world aren’t coming from big companies with unlimited budgets, but rather from groups of developers getting together with a fresh new idea in mind. These small businesses can make a play for a piece of the big business pie thanks to a boost provided by open-source software and Cloud ...

To become more agile in the Big Data world of digital business, many companies are looking toward the cloud. However, the pesky laws of physics work against moving the massive amounts of data that might live in old servers and storage centers. To solve this problem, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has introduced its Snowball data ...

For all its world-changing power, the modern Internet was never designed to do the job business now asks of it. In particular, the Internet was built on the concept of mutual trust, but trust alone is no protection when data worth millions of dollars is flowing across the wires. Data security, and providing that security ...

One of the driving factors in digital business today is the cloud, the idea of storing, accessing and processing data remotely. However, working with the cloud presents its own set of challenges, especially for the traditional model of DevOps and IT operations. To discuss some of these challenges, John Furrier and Brian Gracely of theCUBE, ...

While the Big Data world is always changing, the people involved know what they like, and Splunk, Inc. is near the top of that list. Customers have warmed to Splunk’s Big Data approach, and now the company’s technology is powering an impressive share of the analytics market. To get an idea about what Splunk has ...

It’s one thing to talk about Big Data as a concept, but what does the whole thing mean to the people in the trenches who work with Big Data every day? To properly understand the changes brought about by the digital revolution, it’s necessary to listen to the stories of those who have seen the ...

It’s an old business adage that data is power. In the new world of digital business, sharing data is power. Information that is useless to one company might be critical to another; establishing a relationship with that other company is a powerful way to draw value from otherwise dead data. Likewise, not every company has ...

Big Data is a major step forward for digital businesses, and a concept that will set the standard for the tech industry in the years to come. However, despite the many benefits of Big Data, the technology is still very young. New methods and best practices are being created around Big Data all the time, ...

It’s not enough for a company to merely collect data. To truly benefit from the power of Big Data, a business must ensure the information it works with is timely, accurate and the same across all applications. That means any digital company needs to enact a strong data governance policy to preserve the value of ...

If a company wants to put Big Data to work, they need to get the right information to the right people. Given the volume of data involved, this is not an easy task. A variety of tools have grown up to manage this data pipeline, bringing in data from the outside world and putting it ...