But empowering end users is just one step in an end-to-end analytics value chain, which consists of cleaning data, storing it, preparing it for analysis, monitoring data for key events as it arrives, capturing knowledge in rules-based playbooks, delivering subsets to those who need it, and giving them the tools to analyze it.
Collecting data and storing it is no longer a problem, but getting value from it remains a challenge for businesses of all sizes.
Crucially for data storage, this free flow means that the spins of the electrons in question would be able to align themselves with those of the data-storing atoms, giving a clean signal.
The secret to packing that much information on such small real estate--about 15 times denser than the densest data storage device currently in existence--is self-assembly, or tricking the disk's materials into organizing into an array of data-storing dots packed far tighter than what could be accomplished with current techniques.
Silicon-based memories do a far better job of storing data than brains ever could.
Second of all, companies should realize that storing data will never create value without analysis.
Doing something different might mean sharding differently or storing data in a new system.
FORBES: What Engineering Challenges Is Pinterest Facing As It Scales?
Pacelli also points out that ClickFox can be used to determine which data is worth storing at all.
Sentator Franken referred to a growing unease about the amount of data we are storing with private corporations and the lack of protection for it.
FORBES: Senators Grill Apple And Google Over Smartphone Privacy
Storing data requires following policies that differ from country to country.
Retrieving and storing data from a hard-disk drive takes one million times longer than accessing it from server memory, a difference that can severely degrade application performance.
Cloud-based EMRs solve a basic problem for healthcare providers by securely and efficiently storing data while keeping it accessible to those responsible working directly with patients.
FORBES: In Healthcare, Records Can Be a Matter of Life and Death
For example, if you are an e-commerce company doing online transactions and storing data such as credit card information, you are considered high risk for data breach and thus subject to higher premiums.
Storing data in the cloud is becoming hugely popular not just for consumers who use it to keep photographs and other personal data safe but for businesses which are increasingly using cloud services to offer back-end processing power.
Megaupload.com billed itself as a "cyberlocker, " a means of storing large data files on distant servers.
There's not a lot that the average consumer can do in terms of spotting whether apps are storing unnecessary data in insecure ways.
CNN: 'No permission' Android apps can see and share your data
Utilizing a common de-dupe and compression architecture across your data center can enable your organization to use fewer network resources, reduce your storage footprint, and lower the power and cooling cost of storing your data.
With the plummeting cost of storing and transmitting data, sharing information has become much more practical.
As the cost of gathering, storing and processing data steadily declines, Big Data technology helps us listen in to what the social web is saying.
By storing our social data in a place we retain control over, like App.net (though there will quickly become others), we future-proof our digital identity.
FORBES: Related Stories Made One Writer Quit Facebook And Why Many More May Unbundle Soon
Storing all its data in four centralized centers also allows the law firm to encrypt and better secure its data, as well as recover it in an emergency.
The old model of IT is based on storing massive amounts of data and then trying to find it.
FORBES: TIBCO's Ranadiv�� Says Companies Need Computational Brains
The devices communicate via Bluetooth, but they also have a built-in memory capable of storing hours worth of data.
"Cloud computing" (the practice of storing regularly used computer data on multiple servers that can be accessed through the Internet).
CNN: Adding 'f-bomb' to dictionary makes for an 'aha moment'
Because the cost of storing and analysing the data is also plummeting, almost any action will leave a near-permanent record.
My guess is that Dropbox will eventually build (or buy) a number of features or applications on top of all the data and content that people are storing within the service.
Founded by former Mastercard and Mozy employees and backed by top-tier investors, including Horizons Ventures, First Round, CrunchFund, Pelion Venture Partners, Samsung Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, Bitcasa is redefining how consumers are storing and accessing their data.
ENGADGET: Bitcasa leaves beta, offers discount on Infinite Drive to celebrate
Huberman says the economics still does not favor storing large amounts of personal data on the Web.
应用推荐