Foreword
I met Daniel Linstedt during a speech at Lockheed Martin in the early 1990’s for the first time. By the time, he was an employee of the company, working for government projects. He approached me because he wanted my opinion about a concept that he had invented at the Department of Defense, in order to store large amounts of data. Back then, the term Big Data was not invented yet. But from what Daniel explained to me, the concept to deal with such huge amounts of data, was born.
Because back then, the end user had cried for “give me my data!”. But over time the end user became more sophisticated. The end user learned that it was not enough to get one’s data. What a person needed was the RIGHT data. And then the sophisticated end user cried ...
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