Despite all the publicity around Big Data and Apache Hadoop, a new database deployment survey indicates traditional, structured relational database management systems (RDBMS) still reign among ...

The untapped potential intelligence within unstructured content is driving new practices, new technologies and new roles. My team of data and analytics researchers and consultants falls into two main ...

Structured data is a small and declining percentage of business information. But it is critically important for almost all organisations. Structured data volumes are growing more slowly than stores of ...

Contending with unstructured data is no longer a priority reserved for the most well-financed, IT-savvy organizations, like Google and Facebook. As the world’s data continues to increase at nearly ...

Estimates suggest that upwards of 80% of business information is unstructured data. That could cause headaches for anyone who needs to manage, organise and keep all that data secure. One survey, ...

Your three-year IT roadmap just had its shelf life reduced to three weeks. A recent online discussion looks at what you can ...

With structured data, data fields are aligned side-by-side in fixed record lengths, with specific data fields appearing at static locations within each record. Unstructured data does not contain a set ...

Have you ever found yourself overwhelmed by the sheer volume of data you need to analyze? Whether it’s structured data like CSVs and SQL databases or unstructured data such as PDFs and images, the ...

The amount of data generated daily is just mind-boggling. And as much as 90 percent of that data is defined as unstructured data. But what does that mean and what do you need to know about ...