The amount of data generated daily is just mind-boggling. And as much as 90 percent of that data is defined as unstructured data. But what does that mean and what do you need to know about ...

AI tools and apps also rely heavily on unstructured data. For example, an e-commerce company that wants to automate and improve its customer support experience might use AI to sort through social ...

Managing the devil you know is difficult enough. But in risk management, it’s the devil you don’t know that can spring chaos on your organization. And risks are growing—and growing in complexity—at ...

IDC estimates that upwards of 80% of business information is likely to be formed of unstructured data by 2025. And while “unstructured” can be something of a misnomer, because all files have some sort ...

The success of pharmaceutical companies in developing drugs for treating and curing medical conditions is largely dependent on the quality and completeness of data they gather from clinical trials and ...

Corporations are trying to lock down sensitive information, most of it in structured systems and in data centers with a variety of security solutions. As it is getting harder for hackers to get to the ...

What’s the best way to store, search, and analyze content not based on their technical characteristics but on their meaning? The volume of data being created today is truly staggering. IDC projects ...

Commentary - Big data, unstructured data, semi-structured data. Data is all over the technology news, and for good reason. It is overwhelming most organizations; requiring new ways to operate to stay ...

With structured data, data fields are aligned side-by-side in fixed record lengths, with specific data fields appearing at static locations within each record. Unstructured data does not contain a set ...

Data scientists estimate that 80% of the world’s electronic information is “unstructured”, or held as email, documents, video and photographs, or even free text. “unstructured data is data held ...