Grid computing is a natural evolution of distributed computing. For compute-heavy applications such as scientific calculations, grid computing has delivered strong cost savings. Yet for more ...

The popularity of social media, online shopping, online gaming, and smart devices, along with the massive growth of Internet of Things (IoT), is creating tremendous amounts of data—much of which is ...

While unstructured data may represent one of the greatest opportunities of the big data revolution, it is one of its most perplexing challenges. In many ways, the very core of big data is that it is ...