Analysts say that if you are going to be playing with big data and Hadoop in a public cloud, be careful about the estimation of your bills because you could be in for some surprises. Data has...

Predictions are difficult to make and often prove the maker wrong but there is one technology about which one may make predictions with some safety. This relates to cloud computing and by current trends, here are some...

Governments are typically sitting on piles of big data and they are beginning to realize that using this, they can really make a difference to the standards of governance in their countries. In Japan for instance, there...

Here are some tidbits about Big Data – over the years, there has been a deluge of data that is so large in volume that only the near unlimited storage of the cloud can possibly accommodate it....

General Electric is working with NASA to bring the next generation of air traffic control management to the skies. The advantage would be far greater awareness of about aircraft parameters, much better decision making and advanced data...

Fujitsu Labs (USA) and the Computer Security Alliance have commenced a collaborative project on Big Data Working Group. This will work on Big Data security challenges. The Velocity, Volume and Variety (V3) of Big Data are big...

Cloud computing is bringing the promise of new and drastically cheaper drugs to the world. Here is how it is working – Previous computer aided drug discovery methods relied on in-house servers to do their 3-d modeling....

There is this great concept of data gravity, published on line in a blog that I must discuss with you all. This concept says that if you put enough data together in one place, it begins to...

  Does data as a service sound interesting? It should as recent analysis shows the value of data a firm collects is far more than value of the product when the two are pitted against each other....

While the cloud may not predict the future anytime soon, there are many who are already using for a lot of predictive analysis. Predictive analysis is a branch of business intelligence that seeks to match current data...