Comments on: Big Data is how big exactly?

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:58:27 +0000

Big data = lot of unused information…

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:20:39 +0000

William, I agree with you in part. But I don’t even think that Big Data as a meme will last that long. It’ll get over-used and people will move on to the next thing. Who talks about the Semantic Web anymore, really?

By: William

William — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:56:47 +0000

Whatever you do, do not define big data to be an arbitrary number (5 Gb, 100 Gb, 1Tb, 100 Tb,ect). If its to have any meaning that will be useful in 5, 10 years, it has to defined in terms of other practical, measurable things. Like the amount of ram in common servers, network bandwidth, Disk I/O performance, ect.

By: @somic

@somic — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:44:54 +0000

Doh, messed up the link. bit.ly/f1YmY6

By: @somic

@somic — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:44:08 +0000

You are raising some interesting points. I think in the context of this post, the following panel on Big Data at one of GigaOm's recent events could be helpful - bit.ly/f1YmY6 (it's a link to video recording of the panel). They also discuss how big data as a term is poorly defined and means a lot of things to different people in different contexts.