Millions of simultaneous users play Farmville or Draw Something (which scaled up to 36 million users in 6 weeks), which requires a simple, fast, elastic database (called a NoSQL database, a new category of product designed for the age of big data), that can process and deliver massive amounts of user and other types of data in real time.
To understand Big Data fully, it requires an understanding of the hardware, the software, the statistical and analytic techniques, the various types of data inputs, and how to ultimately present or visualize the outcomes.
Commercial, scientific and government organizations are figuring out ways to collect new types of data and bringing them into a new type of cloud.
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One can start leveraging big data by looking around to see what types of data sets are already available and thinking about how to best monetize them.
The simplest approach may be through the technology offered by Splunk, which has its own search language that allows you to search through big data, identify useful query types, and express your developing understanding of the structure of the data as you search.
Not only do you have to load all types of data about your employees, you also have to load job profiles, assessments, training modules, and dozens of other types of third party data.
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But the nature and visualization of this data is different as it comes from different sources and is used for different types of analysis.
The majority of business data may end up being generated by these billions and billions of Internet-enabled devices of all types, sending back huge amounts of data to corporate servers or the cloud.
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In the face of all of those daunting challenges, more and more businesses and other types of large organizations are turning to cloud computing to let them handle the surging volumes of data and demanding workloads in a manner that also lets those customers begin spending less on low-value overhead and infrastructure and more on customer-facing growth initiatives.
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You are right NFC has been implemented in too many phones already but issues such as data formats and the types of services supported have typically resulted in consumers finding the NFC experience less than impressive.
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It is equipped with advanced electronic, electro-optic, infrared and laser system technologies, as well as secure radio systems with data links and munitions capacity for 130 different types of weapons configurations.
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For many companies, the sheer complexity of managing a data center so that it meets all regulatory, industry and governance requirements, and is also protected against all other types of data loss, is overwhelming.
The majority failed to inform parents about the types of data the app could gather and who could access it, the FTC said.
"There are several robust sites around, but we like the flexibility XTF gives us in presenting data and uncovering relationships between different types of ETFs, " Mr. Colas says.
It may even be worthwhile to reconsider the outsourcing of other types of work such as data analyses and bulk syntheses now done in India and shift this work to other countries where IP is respected and supported.
The satellite images picked out the right type of afforested land, and topography, which, when combined with other data on soil types, rainfall, and temperature, produced a clear "Loa Loa map" of several African countries, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
Circadence designs and builds technologies for delivering data across networks of all types.
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The first step is to be aware of all the types of data that are available both internally and externally.
The optical fibre network at the heart of the effort makes use of the same types of fibres that transmit data to homes and across oceans, in which light bounces along the fibres' length.
The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.
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One source of the data inaccuracies is that FINRA and the SEC have two completely different registration systems each revealing different types of information about the brokers on their respective systems.
He distributed two pages of data on government worker staffing and salary levels in the ward government, including a, for some types of workers, comparison of salary levels in the private sector.
In both cases, several unrelated types of calculation, using independent data sets, and running on a range of computers in different organisations that may not fully trust one another, have to be threaded together to achieve a coherent answer.
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Frankly, when I hear about these types of data compromises I find the discussions of encryption technologies and solutions to be a waste of time.
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The report looked at IRA data from year-end 2008, and includes all types of IRAs: traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, rollover IRAs, as well as small business SEP and SIMPLE plans.
It would also handover confidential corporate information to competitors, including data on salary structures, revenues, and the number and types of employees.
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The new requirements for phone and internet companies sets out different time limits for retaining different types of data.
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