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I came across a video on Youtube over the past weekend: Big Ideas: How Big is Big Data. Although coming with several mentions of EMC, it’s very well prepared and demonstrated with white-boarding, therefore worthwhile to share here.

Some of the key points made from the video include:

• The growth is accelerating. By 2020, there will be 50x more data than today.
• Key drivers of big data include scientific research. CERN for example collects data at speed of 40 TB/S. (I assume not all the time but when important experiments are ongoing.)
• Four important aspects of big data are: economics of scale, affordability, agility, extensibility.
• Big data is not only about size, but also speed and variety of sources.
• Big data is any attribute that challenges constraints of a system capability or business need.
• Not all big data are the same in structure, and can be with iterative, incremental updates.
• Unblocks Big Data’s value and drive more profits and savings by analysis to more precise action
• The question “why shoudl I care about about big data?” should really be “How can I get closer to big data and start taking advantage of it?”

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