The arms race for data continues with the NSA building the largest data centre in the world. Experts say that the data centre is capable of holding up to a yottabyte of data. That is 1 trillion terabyte of data or compared to a 16 gigabyte iPhone, the facility can store the data of 64 trillion iPhones. Laid end-to-end, that amount of iPhones could stretch to the moon and back … [Read more...] about The Arms Race For Big Data Continues – Video
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TransMetrics Brings Big Data To The Transport Industry
 Company TransMetrics Address 1ul. Krum Popov 56-58, 1421 Sofia, Bulgaria Founders Asparuh Koev, Anna Shaposhnikova, Rado Nikolov & Alexander Petkov Founded March 2013 Funding 50k EUR Employees 7 Website www.TransMetrics.eu Rating 5 bits TransMetrics is a new big data startup from Europe and they focus solely on the 5.4 trillion transport and logistics … [Read more...] about TransMetrics Brings Big Data To The Transport Industry
The Viability Of Big Data – Infographic
The three V's (Velocity, Volume and Variety) are known for most of the visitors on this platform to describe big data. However, sometimes also the V of Value is mentioned or in this case the V of Viability. The below infographic describes viability as carefully selecting those attributes in the data that are most likely to predict outcomes that matter most to organizations. As … [Read more...] about The Viability Of Big Data – Infographic
Innovation From The Quantified-Machine Movement – Video
GEs Industrial Internet will result in devices that will have lots of sensors, the internet of things, and the challenge is how to analyse that data. It will lead to a quantified-machine movement, next to the quantified-self movement, where we will be swarmed with sensors all over the products that we use. These trillions of sensors will generate vast amounts of data that, when … [Read more...] about Innovation From The Quantified-Machine Movement – Video
4 Benefits For The Public Sector When Governments Start Using Big Data
Government services, or the public sector, are known for creating large volumes of data. Big data thus provides plenty opportunities for governments to save a lot of public money. According to the UK free market think thank Policy Exchange, the UK government could save up to 33 billion a year by using public Big Data more effectively. McKinsey has investigated that the … [Read more...] about 4 Benefits For The Public Sector When Governments Start Using Big Data
