In this era of big data and sophisticated analytics those tortured souls whose job it is to explain and inform have a big problem: How to to make understandable and actionable what the data reveals.

Garbage in, garbage out: That’s an adage dating back to the dark ages of computing. It can also serve as a call to arms for any organization seeking to make effective use of organizational data to ...

Data visualization for huge sets of information can be hard, man. Datahero wants to make it easy, and apparently, some pretty interesting investors do, too. The product is still in private testing ...

How can a software-defined data center help your company gain a bigger competitive advantage? To help your business stay competitive, your IT organization needs a modern data center that can provide ...

With business publication headlines proclaiming "Big Data’s Promise to Business: Three Steps to Success" and "Big Data for Dummies -- or at Least Product Managers,” it's no surprise that Big Data is ...

In this special guest feature, Al Nugent, co-author of the guide “Big Data for Dummies,” looks back at 2014 and how big data has progressed and also offers some predictions for how the technology ...

In this special guest feature, Al Nugent, co-author of the guide “Big Data for Dummies,” looks back at some of the definitions and predictions from the book and see if they still have relevance in ...