One of my favorite examples of why so many big data projects fail comes from a book that was written decades before “big data” was even conceived. In Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the ...

Big Data is one of the hottest buzzwords today, and for good reason. The ability to process enormous data sets of previously unthinkable magnitudes from many sources is now possible for companies in ...

In April 2003, British and U.S. researchers declared the Human Genome Project complete. This decade-long computational marathon marked the first time that anyone had mapped out the sequence of the ...

Prior to SAP's Unleashed event last month, I braced myself for a barrage of agentic AI announcements. Every vendor is doing them, and I think we know why. Yes, SAP did issue some agentic news at ...

There is more to big data than Hadoop, but the trend is hard to imagine without it. Its distributed file system (HDFS) is helping businesses to store unstructured data in vast volumes at speed, on ...