Big Thoughts on Big Data
May 26, 2012
CorrelSense recently reported on one of the hottest IT trends to date in the article, “Big Data is Truly Transforming the Enterprise.”
According to the MIT’s principal research scientist, Andrew McAfee, Big Data can be likened to the invention of the Microscope in the sense that it exposes information that we couldn’t have found before the way that the Microscope allows you to view things that previously could not be seen.
The article states:
“As IT Pros, you are going to have to learn to process this big data and find tools for the non-technical experts and suits in the C-Suite to mix and match the data. The big difference between this and traditional business intelligence is that with BI you were looking back where you were at a given point in time, whereas with Big Data, you can analyze data in real time and begin to make more intelligent decisions about where to put your resources at any given moment.”
Rather than reducing jobs, as many people fear that technological progression may do, it rather will create them. We’re obviously going to need more people to decipher through this growing pile of data.
Jasmine Ashton, May 26, 2012
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