The Rise of Operational Analytics

Chapter 3. Challenges with Data Platform Infrastructure

The Trouble with Building Up a Data Platform

Across all industries, growth in data generation is exploding inexorably, gaining in size, extent, and speed like an avalanche in motion. With the shift from 4G to 5G networks, telecommunications companies have opened the door to gigabit (>1 GBps) bandwidth speeds. Considering that 4G LTE bandwidth tops out at up to 300 MBps, the increase in data volume and speeds alone will enable mobile connected services to produce and consume entire orders of magnitude more data globally.

This includes Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data, higher-resolution real-time event streams, and usage statistics from mobile applications, as well as native 4k video streams. With the new capability, we can expect more devices to be connected as well.

Scalability across all components within the data platform is of vital importance to enable the elastic growth necessary to handle the processing requirements for all that lies on the road ahead. Realizing and harnessing the value of the data produced across the business will drive more autonomous decision making as well as providing a necessary, unbiased “voice” when making critical business decisions. Lastly, as companies are trending toward a “store everything” attitude with respect to their data, architects must always be focused on providing key infrastructure to help reduce friction and enable holistic solutions to be used across the company.

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