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Big Data – Will This Hype Last Long?

by Durba on October 8, 2012

in Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, IT, Storage, Technology, Trends

Big Data – Will This Hype Last Long?

Do you know what fate has in store for the ‘big data?’ We all are too engrossed in discussing and celebrating the bigness of big data, but we have not thought about its end. Now, nothing is eternal in the technological arena. Like the ultimate rule of universe, everything here is vulnerable to mortality and nothing can be immortal. So we all know that change is the only constant thing in this world. Now before I start quoting Socrates or Dante, I must tell you that these philosophical dogmas aptly describe the techno world too. Every now and then a new innovation replaces other not-too-old ones, new terms and jargons are pushing the previous ones in the obsolete lists; and a 6-7 months device is losing its charm to a 1 week old new device.

Big data was also a new entry in the world of information technology where the world was slowing waking up to the new dawn of World Wide Web. As the time progressed, a huge chunk of data used to be generated every single day from the millions of websites and other online activities. Soon the IT world felt the need to streamline this uncontrolled data and make the most of it by researching and analyzing the potential information hidden in this data storehouse. Thus ‘big data’ came to the fore. And the rest is history. We all know how the proud possessors flaunt their big data information and how the SMEs dream of a day when they will reach this much coveted position with their house full of big data.

But the Gartner report ‘Hype Cycle for Big Data, 2012’published on July 2012 forecasted an impending fall of this big data phenomenon. In fact, if the predictions are to believe, within the next 2-3 years the world will see the demise. If you closely notice the recent trends in data management, you will see how enterprises are giving priority to store and analyze any type or size data of their customers than to the big data.

Previously, companies used to spend millions of dollars in controlling and channelling the mammoth size of data. Now, it has become the norm. And soon the big data is going to be merged into ‘massive data’ or ‘any data’. What will happen to the ‘big data’ then?

By Durba Sengupta

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Author Bio - Durba is a professional writer and blogger who is passionate about the latest technological trends and changes. With a Masters degree in Journalism and Mass Communication, she is possessed with a nose for the latest news along with an innate capability of presenting the complex technological matters in a simple way.

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christajoe
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The business development is nowhere related with the discussion if the concept of Big data is going to last or not, its about if businesses will make use of it to grow and enhance their operational efficiency. Big Data is definitely a technology to deploy to figure out patterns from pile of data and makes it possible for businesses to use this huge amount of data, which otherwise was only stored because it cannot be processed.

Big data products like PureData by IBM, launched recently helps organizations to processes data stored in their warehousing management systems even from other databases and can process petabytes of data in minutes.

So Big data technology definitely holds a great future for the purpose of business intelligence in businesses.

 

DurbaSengupta
DurbaSengupta like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @christajoe I must appreciate your take on this issue. The question lies beneath is that will the future world be able to process this enormous data properly and effectively? Because by 2020 world is going to be the proud possessor of data which may require a new term to describe its unbelievable massiveness. If the world fails to measure that big data and channel it for the  betterment of human life, a transformation of big data will become inevitable. Because the world needs real internet experts to handle the big data, not the IT executives.

 

It would be great to know what you are thinking about this. Please share your opinion with us.

 

Thanks

christajoe
christajoe like.author.displayName 1 Like

 @DurbaSengupta The world "Fail" is not the basis of the evolution as we all know it. If the word Fail was ever considered in the history we would still be running our economy on huge pile of files and folders, if not less. Not only this, consider the hierarchy of data processing, initially there used to files and folders and the executives monitoring and maintaining them for decision makers. Then came the era of computers, where data was turned into a digital format so that few people could administrate the data and then came databases and warehouses which further introduced the pattern finding capabilities in data.

If we analyze this pattern, we will find out that it was correctly quoted that necessity is the mother of invention. And so as the data volume exploded, technology architects introduced Big data technology in order to facilitate the maintenance of large volume data.

There may be some day when Petabytes of data will be processed in seconds as human nature to "ask-more" will not set him back to rely totally on Big Data, there would be some Giant data someday as well.

DurbaSengupta
DurbaSengupta

 @christajoe WOW! We indeed need some smarter ways to process this enormous amount of data! Thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful Infographic.

christajoe
christajoe

@DurbaSengupta

Well said Durba, another thing that I'd like to share with you is the exploding data volume happening on Social media can be another reason for the long run survival of Big data or introduction of some new data technology or concept.

It's an interesting Infographic which I encountered while surfing for Big data technologies

 

http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mashable_Zettabytes-Data-Compare_Infographic_640.png

 

Have a look and share your review.

 

DurbaSengupta
DurbaSengupta

 @christajoe Yes, and there comes the point of Big Data's gradual demise. Some new term will replace this happening phrase! As they put it "change is the only constant thing!" :-) And big data is not big enough to break the law of universe.