According to Inside Big Data, big data can help in understanding DoDs attacks. 

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have been a threat to both large and small businesses around the world as early as the Morris Worm in 1988. 

Pinterest has an open source data management solution, reports Venture Beat 

Pinterest today open-sourced Querybook, a data management solution for enterprise-scale remote engineering collaboration. The company says the tool, which it uses internally, can help engineers compose queries, create analyses, and collaborate with one another via a notebook interface.

Big data could be made more usable through virtual reality, reports AR Post. 

We live in an age of enormous data creation. The amount of global data generated per year has increased by more than 30x over the past 10 years, and it is projected to more than quadruple over the next five. The problem for humans is no longer access to data — it’s how to possibly process the immense amount of data that is now at our fingertips.