Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

Today, nobody argues about the importance of data. It is a given that data must be collected, managed, and analyzed to conduct business successfully in the modern era. But all too often the meaning of ...

YouTube recommendations are a prominent example of applying advanced analytics on a massive scale to improve a service, the experience users get out of it, and the bottom line of the vendor behind it ...

The tired cliche used by those advocating for mandatory data retention is that metadata is the "envelope" not the "letter". That is, it tells you who sent what to whom, where and at what time. Since ...

The government’s use of metadata has been thrust into the spotlight with the NSA’s attempt to thwart terrorism by tracking habits and connections of suspects on watch lists. But the value of metadata ...

Personal data is protected from foreign interference in sovereign solutions, but the same does not apply to metadata.

For banks that have invested in Big Data capabilities but are struggling to generate value from them, metadata can unlock meaningful insights. Jiang, Capgemini: In order to analyze, you need to know ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) features that ...