Nice to meet you!I am M, a data engineer who jumped into the world of big data with no prior IT experience.The mission and ...

"Metadata" is one of those techy buzzwords you'll frequently hear in the discourse surrounding internet privacy, storage, and social media. There's an array of applications of metadata — a few of ...

Metadata has been a popular topic for several years, but in many cases, the discussions have fallen short. Frequently, the topic of preserving metadata during file transfer is discussed, but this use ...

Organizations often grow into metadata problems, rather than out of them. IT departments invest time and effort into data management to ensure data quality, security and availability. These practices ...

Organizations generate metadata so quickly that it's turning into today's big data challenge. However, the best way and location to store all this information is not always clear. Much depends on how ...

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 ...

When we talk and write about IT issues, we use certain words to mean many different things: “Platform,” “architecture,” and “integration” are among the worst offenders. But the most overloaded term in ...