Will Big Data Clog Networks With Big Traffic?

Data Center Knowledge (Dec 13 2011) Cloud Computing , Storage

1. Big Data, housed in new and disruptive technologies, is expected to account for more than 50 percent of the world’s data in the next five years, according to a a new study. While it offers huge and untapped value, the inevitable result is stress and strain on the world’s Interent infrastructure as companies seek to manage this explosion of information. The new study, released jointly by Internet Research Group and Infineta Systems, a provider of WAN optimization systems, examines how big data is affecting enterprise WAN (Wide Area Network) throughout the country. Big Data – which is defined as datasets whose size is beyond the ability of typical database software tools to capture, store, manage and analyze – is most often found in petabyte to exabyte size, and is unstructured, distributed and in flat schemas. (Read Full Article)

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