BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Data
- the measurements and observations collected during a statistical investigation
Wiktionary Definition for: Data
- Plural of datum: Pieces of information.
- (''collectively''; ''uncountable'') Information.
- date
- #English data
- third person singular present tense of datare
- second person singular imperative of datare
- #date
Additional Resources
- Microsoft's Danger SideKick data loss casts dark on cloud computing
- By Daniel Eran DilgerPublished: 04:55 PM EST Microsoft has demonstrated that the dark side of cloud computing has no silver linings. After a major server outage occurred on its watch last weekend, users dependent on the company have just been informed that their personal data and photos "has almost certainly...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Factual Sees Open Data As its Future
- First there was open source. And here comes open data. Or that's what Gil Elbaz thinks. He is returning to the start-up arena with a new Los Angeles-based start-up called Factual, that is building its business around the concept of open data. The company wants to help build open databases...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Sun, Oracle save Microsoft's Pink after Danger data disaster
- By Daniel Eran DilgerPublished: 04:00 PM EST Microsoft has announced the restoration of Sidekick users' contacts as the first milestone in recovering data it lost in the cloud computing disaster affecting its Danger subsidiary, while a new source explains why the restoration was possible without a backup and why it...
- News items 2009-10-21
- Aster Data architects application logic with data for speeded-up analytics processing en masse
- In real estate, the mantra is "location, location, location." The same could be said for the juxtaposition of applications logic and data. With enterprise data growing at an explosive rate, having applications separate from the mountains of data that they rely on has resulted in massive data movement — increasing...
- News items 2009-11-03
- EMC gives Avamar data deduplication desktop and laptop support
- The EMC Avamar Data Store storage grid also supports denser nodes and integrates with VMware's vSphere 4. Avamar 5 improves desktop and laptop backup by providing a lightweight agent and allowing end users to restore information on their own. Rob Emsley, senior director of product marketing for EMC's Backup Recovery...
- News items 2009-11-17
- OS mapping data: a new landscape unfolds
- Landmark proposal on OS mapping and postcode area information is victory for Free Our Data campaign The Free Our Data campaign has scored a major victory, with the announcement by the government that it intends to make Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation – including...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Data Loss in a Downturn | BTalk Australia
- (10min 54) Ex-employees take a lot of knowledge away with them, but they leave as much behind. It's sitting on their desktop computer, hidden in email messages or stored on files lost on your file servers. So what should your IT department be doing when an employee leaves to protect...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Should you trust Microsoft with your data?
- By Joe Wilcox , Betanews That's probably not a hard question for many Sidekick users to answer, given recent events. If you're a Sidekick user, please offer your answer -- or your experience during the week-long data crisis -- in comments. I ask the...
- News items 2009-10-12
- Microsoft: Weaposve recovered most Sidekick data
- Microsoft said Thursday that it believes it has recovered most of the Sidekick data that it initially feared might have been permanently lost."We are pleased to report that we have recovered most customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage," corporate vice president Roz...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Calais 4.0 Released: Linked Data Meets the Commercial Web
- Thomson Reuters is today launching the latest version of its Calais web service and open API, Calais 4.0. Calais is a toolkit of products that enables publishers to incorporate semantic functionality within their properties - enabling them to categorize content as people, places, companies, facts, events, and more. Calais 4.0...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Global CIO: Microsoft Data Center Strategy Vital To Azure
- In cloud computing competition, data center capacity isn't a pure commodity, not merely the table stakes that every vendor must have to be in the game. Maybe someday it will approach that, but near term, the companies that can efficiently ramp data center capacity up and down could gain a...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Microsoft Recovers Most Sidekick Data
- PC World - Microsoft has good news for most Sidekick users: The company says it has recovered most of the data for T-Mobile Sidekick users who saw personal information accidentally wiped from their devices earlier this week. Redmond also provided a few more details about what went wrong with the...
- News items 2009-10-15
- How Did T-Mobile Suddenly Recover Unrecoverable Data?
- Microsoft today said it had recovered most of affected Sidekick customers' lost data. But this past weekend, like a doctor issuing a terminal prognosis, T-Mobile told affected customers that their data "almost certainly has been lost." So, what changed between then and now? The statement at T-Mobile's site comes from...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Microsoft Claims Sidekick Data Will Be Restored This Week
- Microsoft suggested in an Oct. 18 statement that T-Mobile Sidekick users' personal data, lost in a catastrophic server failure earlier this month, could be largely restored as soon as this week. T-Mobile has continued to suspend sales of the Sidekick smartphone while the data loss, attributed to Microsoft's subsidiary Danger...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Guy Vs. Guy: What Should Users Learn From the Sidekick Data Disaster?
- Welcome to Guy Vs. Guy! In this recurring feature, Rick and Dave square off on the business and technology issues of the day. This week’s topic: The startling, sudden, and nearly disastrous loss of data on T-Mobile Sidekick phones. Obviously someone screwed up, but do users share some of the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Survey Reports Most Data Centers Not Ready for Cyber-attack
- Industry association AFCOM finds that 40 percent of all data centers are still using at least one mainframe, and that about one-third of all data center managers with mainframes who plan hardware upgrades in 2010 will replace them with rack servers.If you ask AFCOM, the world's largest data center industry...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Palm Pre users suffer cloud computing data loss
- By Daniel Eran DilgerPublished: 06:00 PM EST Related AppleInsider articles:Sun, Oracle save Microsoft's Pink after Danger...Sun, Oracle save Microsoft's Pink after Danger...Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on...Microsoft's Danger Sidekick data loss casts...Microsoft plays catch up to MobileMe with My...Palm is investigating why its Palm Pre users are suffering data loss after...
- News items 2009-11-25
- Using Your Web Site to Gather Consumer Data
- If your business has a Web site, you can collect very useful data on consumers—either directly, by asking them for information, or indirectly, by analyzing their behavior while on your site. If you treat consumers fairly, respect their privacy, and analyze the resulting data properly, you can use your findings...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- And Why Are We Capturing All These Data?
- Data pervade businesses in every industry -- some more than others, to be sure, but whether you're in financial services or hi-tech manufacturing, data is increasingly the lifeblood of decision-making. That raises an important question: why are we collecting all those data? What's the real motivation behind data capture?...
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- First Data Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (FDC)
- Earnings Call Excerpt First Data FDC Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call January 26th 2006, 8:00 AM. Executives: Gary Kohn, First Data Corporation Ric Duques, First Data Corporation David Bailis, First Data Financial Institutions, President Ed Labry, First Data Commercial Services, President...
- Earnings calls 2006-01-27
