Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. In an era where almost everything is touted as being “big data” how do ...

Big data can solve every business problem you have, transform society for the better, and possibly cure your fallen arches — if you believe the firestorm of ultra-positive hype on the subject. In an ...

Big data is an IT buzzword nowadays, but what does it really mean? When does data become big? At a recent Big Data and High Performance Computing Summit in Boston hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), ...

As businesses continue to harness Big Data to drive innovation, customer engagement and operational efficiency, they increasingly find themselves walking a tightrope between data utility and user ...

Some ten years ago, I started writing about what we then called "big data" for ZDNet; in fact, I was the first person at ZDNet focused on it exclusively. Coming from a consulting background in ...