The predictions have been coming for some time that Big Data will make a tremendous impact in our Digital Universe. I made a presentation back in 2008 to an FFRDC that suggested to them that this was an area they should start looking into for their government clients, but it didn't get much traction then (may it was just me?).
Steve Todd recently posted that a recent issue of The Economist indicated that three technology trends are enabling machines to become more prevalent:
- The new version of
the internet protocol (IPV6), with an address space of 128 bits, provides for 340
billion, billion, billion, billion unique addresses. The current
protocol, 32 bits long, supported only 4.3 billion binary addresses.
- There has never been
enough bandwidth to support wireless M2M data streams. Over the past
year, new 4G networks have rolled out to accommodate smart phones and pads.
- Cloud computing has collapsed the unit cost of storage.
The interaction of these trends are what disruption is all about. These trends, along with the growth in analytic visualization, will allow any organization to mine the data that collected an an accelerating rate and quickly respond to nascent indicators of interest. New product and services will meet the immediate needs of crowd-sourced requirements.
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