Small data adds up to big problems

We often associate big data with research problems that are important to humanity as a whole - problems like human evolution, energy sources and cancer. To process big data, we often think that one needs big iron like computer nodes, scale-out storage and parallel systems to compute the massive amounts of data.

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Big Data: How NSA helped boost business IT

Buzzword “big data” — if you have watched the news in the past three months, you likely picked up on the affinity between intelligence agencies and the IT topics ECM and business intelligence (BI). As a new generation of technologies and architectures for processing and utilizing large amounts of data, “big data” is gaining relevance in European organizations remarkably fast. Influenced by the NSA scandal and based on the success of implemented best practices in the US, European organizations are beginning to invest in ECM software, data storage technologies, cloud solutions and data access management.

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