Metadata is data that describes other data. By summarizing basic information about other data, which is usually kept inside a big database, metadata makes it easier to understand, find, and work with ...

The data within your organization is important, but the metadata within your organization is the language that it speaks to itself and to others, about the state of the organization, about the ...

As companies collect increasing amounts of data and store it, they risk creating data swamps. Sometimes, what started as a data lake turns into a data swamp. Data lakes and data swamps are both data ...

We asked experts to help us shed light on the differences between a data lake and a data warehouse and what that means for your organization.

The Difference Between Structured, Unstructured, And Semi-Structured Data To easily understand the differences between the classifications of data, let’s use this analogy to illustrate.

Data Fabric Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna was among the first individuals to define the data fabric back in the mid-2000s. Conceptually, a big data fabric is essentially a metadata-driven way of ...

Signal and WhatsApp are both end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, but they differ in ownership and data collection practices. WhatsApp, owned by Meta, collects metadata on users, while Signal, a ...

How we talk about data privacy and protection is going to inform the future of our personal information.

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Associate professor at the University of New South Wales school of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr Clinton Fernandes, provides an explanation of what metadata retention is and how it might ...