InformationWeek Full Issue: August 9, 2010
The Big Data Era: How To Succeed
Two forces define this era: size and speed. And those forces are driving companies to consider new choices for how they deal with data.
Size is relative -- by some estimates, 90% of data warehouses hold less than five terabytes. But it's the pace of growth that has companies rethinking their options. Nearly half (46%) of organizations surveyed last year by The Data Warehousing Institute said they'll replace their primary data warehousing platform by 2012. Speed is sometimes about pure performance, as in how quickly a system answers a query, but more important is the broad notion of "speed to insight." That's about how much time people-often statistician-analyst type people-must spend loading data and tuning for performance. The pressure is on IT to get insights out of ever-larger data sets-faster. We explore how companies are dealing with that pressure.
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