by Angela Guess
A new article reports, “While data management has always been a key function in corporate IT, ‘the current frenzy has taken market activity to a whole new level,’ says Richard Winter, an analyst with Wintercorp Consulting Services, a firm that studies big data trends. New products appear regularly from established companies and startups alike. Whether it’s Hadoop, MapReduce, NoSQL or one of several dozen data warehousing appliances, file systems and new architectures, the data analytics segment is booming, he says.”
Winter says, “We have products to move data, to replicate data and to analyze data on the fly… Scale-out architectures are appearing everywhere as vendors work to address the enormous volumes of data pouring in from social networks, sensors, medical devices and hundreds of other new or greatly expanded data sources.”
The article continues, “Some shops know about the challenges inherent in managing really big data all too well. At Amazon.com, Nielsen, Mazda and the Library of Congress, this task has required adopting some innovative approaches to handling billions of objects and petascale storage media, tagging data for quick retrieval and rooting out errors.”
