In the same week, IBM put out two press releases on cloud analytics. Who would have thought that possible a few years ago? Did the big, rigid, and smart IBM of mainframe, Deep Blue, and Watson fame really migrate to the cloud?

Data for data's sake is powerless. It's only when end users are given access to the data to gain insights, see trends and make predictions that the data can actually tell a story. In this way, data becomes a bridge to knowledge.

On first inspection, Google All Access, the new streaming music service that Google announced on Wednesday, is merely a late arrival to an already cro...

There is no doubt that assembling all of this data has been a boon for advertisers who can now pinpoint precisely the kinds of clothes the Digital You buys from your favorite online merchant. Big Data surely makes cents. But does it make sense?

Between social networks, search, online shopping, mobile and other connected devices, the consumer portion of the 2.5 quintillion bytes of data genera...

Excel isn't going away, but it is no longer the default front-end UI, nor the only way to communicate data.

Just as we look forward to the next compelling "Star Trek" movie and new adventures in outer space, a new frontier is emerging: inner space. IBM scientists have turned the problem on itself, tackling one of the world's largest big data challenges in the smallest way -- one atom at a time. In fact, the folks at Guinness World Records have certified the movie as the "World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film."

With wearable technology, data will become the new astrology. We will use it to divine our personal futures and deconstruct our present. It will alter the "human ideal" and change the meaning of what we think of as "success."

The events last week were nothing short of horrible, although Bostonians and Americans together rejoiced on Friday as the second bombing suspect was...

Programmatic media buying (PMB) has been touted as the future of media planning and buying, especially in the online digital segment.Yet, they haven't. Even after years of double-digit annual growth forecasts, PMB accounts for a meager 10 percent of total digital media buying.

Two weeks after the GigaOm Conference on Structure Data in New York, Gerstein Fisher held its annual Real Talk series. The subject of the investment management firm's lecture followed GigaOm's footsteps, as if by design.

We love algorithms that help and save time. We are less enthusiastic when an algorithm determines our credit-worthiness unfavorably. So, how do we feel about algorithms that make decisions for us in a self-drive car?