May be of interest to some of my readers. 1. Data protection
challenge of the future: what is Big Data? The three V’s -
Volume, Velocity, and Variety – are the essential
characteristics of “Big Data”. While data protection and privacy
laws are still busy catching up with technologies of yesterday,
Big Data is growing at a lightning speed on a daily basis. How
can companies deal with the data protection challenges brought
about by Big Data in order to truly benefit from the
opportunities introduced by Big Data? First, one must truly
grasp what is Big Data. We interview Jeff Jonas, Chief Scientist
at IBM Entity Analytics, to obtain his perspectives and
definition of Big Data, and his experience handling Big Data. 2.
When did data become big? Big Data did not become big overnight.
What I think happened is data started getting generated faster
than organizations could get their hands around it. Then one day
you simply wake up and feel like you are drowning in data. On
that day, data felt big. 3. Please explain an