IDG Contributor Network: Big Data – a roadmap for smarter data

Big Data is a term that is used in the information technology industry to mean building multiple sources of information together into a data lake, a data repository built on relatively inexpensive high performing computer hardware. The value of your data can be extracted from a data lake through existing reporting and business analytic systems. Furthermore, the advent of machine learning capabilities for Big Data solutions provides additional analytical capabilities. Machine learning has derive