Big data promises to deliver more insight, but the network must be ready to support the higher traffic levels that come with it. Big data is a big deal. You read about it and its promises of insight.

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note that it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The Big Data trend ...

Analyzing internal social networks can provide business intelligence that was not formerly available. Big data can originate in many industries. Big data is also created by social networks. Collecting ...

What do Amazon, Netflix and Tesla have in common? They’re all data-driven companies that rely heavily on analytics. They might even be accurately described as a data company serving retail, a data ...

In today's modern business environment, data is the foundation of efficient business operations. Organizations generate and collect large amounts of information from various sources such as social ...

The Corvil appliance taps raw packet data over a client's network, then cleans, decodes and enriches it so users can perform real-time analysis in Corvil's platform─for example, to identify data ...

Britain’s railway network is made up of around 200,000km of track, most of it dating from Victorian times. But the railways face a very modern-day problem: dealing with the impact of climate change ...