Cloud Computing: Big Data Analytics And Why Datacenter Infrastructure Matters

Grazed from NetworkComputing. Author: Bill Kleyman.

We are witnessing an amazing trend in the IT world. There are now more devices, more connections to the Internet, and more demands from devices than from people. At the same time, IT environments have a new challenge: the data all these devices produce. The average employee already utilizes, on average, three to five devices to access a corporate datacenter. As more devices come online and connect to the cloud, they will produce more data — data that will need to be managed and quantified. Let’s consider some numbers:

• According to IBM, the end-user community has, so far, created more than 2.7 zettabytes of data. In fact, so much data has been created so quickly, that 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.
• As of 2012, there are more than 240 terabytes of information collected by the Library of Congress in the U.S.
• Facebook handles 300 million photos a day and about 105 terabytes of data every 30 minutes. It also stores 100 petabytes of data on one Hadoop disk cluster, according to published reports…

• In 2012, the Obama administration officially announced the Big Data Research and Development Initiative. Now, there is more than $200 million invested into big data research projects.
• Research firm IDC forecasts the big data market will grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $32.4 billion in 2017…

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