Most enterprise data lives outside databases. Here's why that's holding AI back — and how connecting context can change it.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Information, without order, is chaotic. Attempting to work ...

When you consider how we capture information and knowledge through email, documents, presentations, social media, audio and video, it is easy to understand why unstructured data accumulates, and that ...

Estimates suggest that upwards of 80% of business information is unstructured data. That could cause headaches for anyone who needs to manage, organise and keep all that data secure. One survey, ...

Every day, IT security teams are inundated with data — security events, network flows, configuration information, and so on — which then must be collected and analyzed for potential vulnerabilities.

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 ...

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 ...