Wednesday 30 April 2014

Big Data : An Overview

The latest trend of ICT reported by Frost and Sullivan indicates that Big Data is the most business and research topic around the world. For the past few years, IT has developed a tremendous amount of software and systems that store and manipulate many kinds of data; e.g., text, image and audio. Then, with the emerging of social utilities such as Facebook and Twitter, the issue of storing data becomes more hype. A huge size of memory is required especially when a petabyte of data is accessing at the same time. Users are not only access and store data, but also able to get new information by manipulating the existing data. The new information will help users in daily life activities for example in keeping financial record, planning for vacation, and tracking personal health. Therefore, several researches on Big Data can be done in handling issues of data volume, velocity, variety, value, and veracity. Domains that are required Big Data not limited to are healthcare, government, sensor, finance, education, law, transportation, retailing, and telecommunication. Big Data will change people’s lifestyle in sustainable and affordable technology.

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