Spending on Internet of Things (IoT) projects is expected to triple over the next few years, to more than $450 billion globally, as the technology matures and use cases emerge. As organizations embark ...

The Enterprise crew did not understand Data at first—after all, his clinical demeanor and unfamiliarity with social dynamics made him largely unrelatable. However, with time the crew came to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. The Washington Post carried a story earlier this week about a new ...

Have we come full circle in database technologies? At this year’s San Jose Strata conference, Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug) provided a recap of the last 30 to 40 years of database history, and posed ...

Baltimore was a pioneer in implementing data-driven management in local government, but over 20 years it wasn’t always embraced. The lesson? Culture and leadership matter. The CleanStat dashboard is ...

NASA’s Lessons Learned database is a vast, constantly updated collection knowledge and experience from past missions, which it relies on for planning future projects and expeditions into space. With ...

What could be worse than a major data breach involving millions of records that occurs at a well-known global company affecting millions of personal records? Answer: a cover-up of the entire incident.

You're a database administrator, working hard, never catching up. You keep the databases humming morning, noon and night, weekdays, weekends and holidays. Or at least you try to. But things happen.

In many respects the breach trends of 2013 have borne out some good news for the security industry. Unlike the past four to five years, this one has not been awash with mega database breaches of tens ...

If you think your computers and protected health information are being properly destroyed because you've hired a specialized company to do the job, well, think again. See Also: Going Beyond the ...