Cybersecurity, Meet Big Data

Some compare the challenge of responding to today's cybersecurity threats to playing an extreme version of Whac-A-Mole: where the minute one focuses on destroying one mole-like threat, other moles are already popping up. New security information and event management tools can help detect cyberattacks and theft, when other methods can't.

Regardless of where you are or what industry you work in, how you find and use data is dramatically changing. A data-driven economy is emerging, and organizations across the world are just beginning to understand it and explore the possibilities. It takes technology to unlock, manage and gain value from the volume of data the world is generating. Get ready to handle petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes and yottabytes.

Off Florida's Gulf Coast, scientists are diving into a sea of data. They're tracing tiny Atlantic bluefin tuna larvae, and their parents, to better protect and monitor the environmentally delicate and highly migratory fish.

Talking about data can be as exciting as talking about mud, unless you're living at the bottom of a fire-torched hill on the third day of a torrential storm. Today, companies are finding themselves at the bottom of that hill, watching as their organizations fill with increasing pools of data.

Science needs data - and today's technologies are giving researchers more data than ever before. But making sense of all that data requires computing power on an extreme scale.