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 ...

In recent years, the service has doubled the amount of network endpoints contributing log data nearly in real time into the big data platform known as Gabriel Nimbus, which is based on the Defense ...

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 ...