What does data processing actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

12 definitions of Big DataThe traditional database of authoritative definitions is, of course, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Here’s how the OED defines big data: (definition #1) “data ...

By Svetlana Sicular Gartner, Inc. Volume, velocity and variety characteristics of information assets are not three parts of Gartner’s definition of big data, it is part one, and oftentimes ...

Microsoft has acquired Fungible, a company developing data processing unit hardware, for an undisclosed sum.