Introducing big data
Having a group of IT professionals agree on the definition for big data is like getting a group of surfers to agree on the perfect wave. Both are highly dependent on perception, skills, experience, and goals. Until early 2013, no surfer thought it was possible to surf a 90-foot wave. Yet with Jet Ski technology, which provided a new method of approaching a mega-wave, a vision of the possible, and a highly skilled, determined, fearless surfer, the art of the possible was achieved.
Just like the achievement of surfing the largest ...

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