The Official Bigstep Blog

In 1998, the European Union, United States, and Switzerland entered an agreement called Safe Harbor, which was enacted to assure that the data collected,… Continue Reading

Headline news is what most of us use to gauge the state of cyber security. After all, it's what we see, hear, and think about. But the headlines (by nature)… Continue Reading

What was the biggest data breach ever? Was it the infamous Sony hack that ended 2014? Maybe it was the much-publicized US Office of Personnel Management… Continue Reading

Typically, the way Gartner and other market analysts judge adoption levels of a new technology is to assess their market shares. For example, the dollars… Continue Reading

A cursory look at some of the numbers on data breaches can be misleading. For instance, while there were just 400 reported cases of data breaches over… Continue Reading

Big data has passed buzzword status and progressed to must-have-business-solution. Your competitors are getting into big data, which means you either… Continue Reading

Big data has made a huge mark on virtually every industry on earth. From manufacturing goods to transporting same, from assessing financial risk to determining… Continue Reading

Big data is often associated with batch processing -- analytics that takes a lot of time. But increasingly, new data processing and analytical tools are… Continue Reading

So, you have big plans for big data. You've picked out a lovely infrastructure and it's time to get started. But one question remains: which language… Continue Reading

Last year, readers thoroughly enjoyed our run-down of the top big data books for the year. As you prepare for summer vacation, you'll probably want to… Continue Reading

In the beginning was the database, and the database was good. It stored all of the transactional data and powered your users and applications quite nicely.… Continue Reading

For all of the buzz about big data and analytics, most of the real world use cases you read about involve marketing. It's true: big data is powerful for… Continue Reading