Big Data -- Big Money Says It Is A Paradigm Buster

Forbes.com (Jan 6 2012)

1. Big Data is attracting big money — $100 million at Accel Partners, the VC firm. “Big data is one of the biggest transformational changes in the data center and IT landscape,” said Ping Li, a partner at the VC firm Accel Partners, which is running a $100 million Big Data fund. “It happens once in a generation,” he told the audience at a Churchill Club panel in Silicon Valley. Gartner predicts that data will grow 800 percent over the next five years and 80 percent of the data will be unstructured. And just what constitutes Big Data? After SC2011, the US supercomputing conference in Seattle in November, Addison Snell, an industry analyst, blurred the lines a bit in a podcast with HPCwire. (Read Full Article)

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