Behavioral data isn’t just for e-commerce anymore. Thanks to advances in in-store technology, physical retailers can now capture the same kind of insights into how shoppers move, pause, browse and ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What are wide column stores? Wide column stores are database management systems ...

Almost every app we use or develop has to store data for one purpose or another. It’s not all the same data, either — some apps need access to settings, images, and much more. The big question is how ...

Vint Cerf is sometimes called the "father of the Internet." He helped develop TCP/IP (the communications protocol for the Internet) and later became chairman of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for ...

Businesses are generating vast amounts of event data across clouds, applications, and 3rd party SaaS. Too often this data is siloed, sampled, and thrown out to save cash. But here’s the thing: The ...

Scientists at IBM have figured out at a way to encode data onto a single atom, which is the most compact information storage ever achieved. Their results are published in a paper in the journal Nature ...