Big Data’s Effect on Data Management

Globally, the amount of data created and consumed by individuals and organizations is growing at an unprecedented rate.  Industry analysts from Gartner ^{CITATION Ray10 \l 1033}  predict that enterprise data in all forms will grow 650 percent over the next 5 years, while IDC claims the entire world’s volume of data doubles every 24 months. ^{CITATION Ric09 \l 1033}   By 2021, some estimate there will be as many bits in the digital universe as there are stars in the physical universe, much of it unstructured and unorganized.  This deluge of data represents a source of competitive value for the enterprise as well as new challenges for business leaders and IT professionals.  An entire new class of solutions – applications, consulting, storage strategies – organized loosely under the “Big Data” moniker, has sprung up to meet this eruption of data. Ill-fitted to the narrow, expensive, and operationally fragile strictures of traditional data warehousing or business intelligence; Big Data requires new thinking, new strategies and new architectures. 

In Part 1 of Basho Technologies White Paper series, “The Next Evolution of Data Management,” we discuss the global explosion of data, how big data is impacting data management, and how the market is responding to these new challenges with the creation of next-generation data management systems like Riak EDS.

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