Technologies

Technologies

A number of recent technology advancements enable organizations to make the most of big data and big data analytics:

• Cheap, abundant storage.
• Faster processors.
• Affordable open source, distributed big data platforms, such as Hadoop.
• Parallel processing, clustering, MPP, virtualization, large grid environments, high connectivity and high throughputs.
• Cloud computing and other flexible resource allocation arrangements.

The goal of all organizations with access to large data collections should be to harness the most relevant data and use it for better decision making.