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How Big Data has Redefined the Legal Industry

Smart Data Collective

One of the biggest changes of an age of technology, is the entrance of “big data” into the world, which got noticed, globally, around 2010. Co-founder and Co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, Andrew MacAfee once said, “The world is one big data problem.”. are still fighting the last war.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

In the modern world of business, data is one of the most important resources for any organization trying to thrive. Business data is highly valuable for cybercriminals. They even go after meta data. Big data can reveal trade secrets, financial information, as well as passwords or access keys to crucial enterprise resources.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. An efficient big data management and storage solution that AWS quickly took advantage of. They now have a disruptive data management solution to offer to its client base.

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