Cloud Infographic: What Is Big Data, Anyway?

in Big Data, Cloud Computing, Computing, Education, Images, Infographic, IT, Security, Storage, TechnologyIn information technology, big data is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools. The challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, analysis, and visualization. The trend to larger data sets is due to the additional information derivable from analysis of a single large set of related data, as compared to separate smaller sets with the same total amount of data, allowing correlations to be found to “spot business trends, determine quality of

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