Big Data a $50 Billion Market by 2012?

The world is buzzing about Big Data and it begs the question: “How big is the Big Data market?” Unable to find any market size information, Wikibon, a open-source-style community of industry analysts, kicked off a project to study the size and forecast the market and report on market shares. The study, How Big is…

Profiting from Big Data Requires Human Insight

by Scott Yara of Greenplum, a division of EMC Pioneering organizations are now working with Big Data, data that is either too voluminous or too unstructured to be managed using traditional database technologies and are employing analytical tools to analyze and make decisions on it. Because of this, the role of a “data scientist” has…

Top 7 Legal Things to Know about Cloud, SaaS and eDiscovery

Editor’s Note: EMC markets solutions aimed at solving the problems presented by ediscovery and legal holds on electronic information. Our goal in publishing this article is to provide information you may find useful and thought-provoking. It is not intended as an endorsement of EMC products, services or technology. Cloud computing — or computing as a…

Three DLP Offerings that Should be on Your Short List

Given the recent focus on data breaches, it’s no wonder that the data loss prevention (DLP) market is getting a lot of attention these days. In general, these products catalog data, assign security classification, and then monitor and protect data files at rest, in motion, and in use. Knowing who accesses which data files, what…