Cloud Computing: The Open Performance Grid Drives Innovation

Grazed from SysConMedia. Author: Roger Strukhoff.

The amount of data processed in the world doubles every three years and a global commitment to open source technology is the way to handle this growth. An open technology approach fosters innovation through massive community involvement and impedes expensive vendor lock-in. This benefits buyers as markets remain more competitive.

In doing so, open standards and technologies also allow for market hypergrowth, and this is the key to handling the growth of data. A doubling every three years means we’ll be grappling with a full Yottabyte of data in the year 2040. That’s one billion petabytes, an amount of data that, similar to pondering geologic time, I can understand in the abstract but not truly grasp…

Meanwhile, the nature of this data-which can truly be called Big Data in today’s age of the Zettabyte-is transforming from a jet plane model to a chewing gum model…

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