A machine that processes data. Essentially, all computers are machines that process data by calculating, comparing and copying the data. See data processing and 3 C's. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL ...

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, misunderstood. Most people only retain about ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. The emergence of business intelligence and data warehousing initiatives has placed ...

This is the 13th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the ...

Apache Arrow defines an in-memory columnar data format that accelerates processing on modern CPU and GPU hardware, and enables lightning-fast data access between systems. Working with big data can be ...

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. Today, ...

(1) The first industry title. From the early 1900s to the 1960s, data processing was tabulating machines and punch card processing. Thereafter, it referred to computer processing. By the 1980s, the ...