Big data, big business.

In late autumn, a group of well-known experts and scholars gathered in the field of information and communication to Huairou, a more warm and gorgeous topic than Beijing's autumn in front of them-big data.

This is an industry of innovative research and fruitful results, followed by cloud computing, the Internet of Things, the wisdom of the Earth, "big data" again hit.

Latest weather vane for ICT

Large data is used to describe the massive data generated by the explosion of information. Jim Gray's new Moore theorem holds that every 18 months the amount of information added globally is the sum of all the information the computer has ever seen. As of 2010, the total amount of information available to humans was about 1.2ZB (1ZB equals 1 trillion GB). IDC predicts that by 2020, the world's total data storage will reach 35ZB.

The data is growing so fast, from the proliferation of sensors and intelligent terminals. High-definition images and video also make the data exponential growth. How to collect, manage and analyze data is becoming more and more important in the innovation of information and communication technology.

The famous Futurist Alvin Toffles in the third wave of prophecy said: "If IBM's mainframe opened the information revolution of the big screen, then ' Big Data ' is the 3rd wave of the CLS movement." "In March this year, the U.S. government announced a formal launch of the Big Data plan, and compared it to the historical investment in supercomputing and the Internet." This marks the big data has risen to the U.S. national strategy.

Members of the Telecommunications Economic Experts Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (ECTE) have been discussing at the autumn salon recently that the big data age has come from the overall trend of global ICT development.

Big Data can do

Large data, the industry has no unified conclusion, generally believed that the start should be 100PB, and in dynamic expansion, there is no limit.

Professor Shishuai, deputy leader of the Working Group of China's unstructured data management system, general manager of Beijing, said that more important than "big" is the use, is from the data found in the law to predict the future. According to the introduction, the development of Ecuador's presidential election next year to develop a predictive analysis system, aggregated thousands of Spanish-language news sites, including blogs, forums, social media information, real-time extraction of public opinion hot spots and tendency to predict the results of the election, users use the network account to obtain services.

The most typical application of large data should be the United States federal government's unified data Open Portal--data.gov, which aims to open government-owned public data to the United States, encourage new ideas and provide more transparent and richer public services. As of December 2011, Data.gov had opened 3721 items of original data and 386429 geographical data. More importantly, the site also brings together 1570 of data visualization applications. From the air quality and the relationship between the number of factories, to the number of fat people and fast food restaurants, giving unlimited inspiration and convenience.

Data.gov applications not only serve the public, stimulate the economy, but also mobilize a lot of innovation. One of the free flight delay analysis applications, through the analysis of flight history on the accuracy of data, to help consumers find the best performance, or the most appropriate flight. With the data.gov data open, the US flight delay rate fell from 27% in 2008 to 20.23% in 2010.

Ministry of Information Technology Promotion Department deputy director Dong Baoqing told the people posts and Telecommunications newspaper reporter, to actively look at the big data boom. The rise of large data, not entirely from the information technology changes to a great height, but from a government, enterprises, national information applications and innovative thinking to a new level. The essence of large data is the high value and innovation of information resources, knowledge resources and intelligence resources development and utilization. And our country in 2004 in the Office, Kwok 34th document has already elaborated this idea profoundly, now needs to be more active to push.

Big challenges contain great opportunities

"The scientific and technological community should pay great attention to the new development direction of large data research and promote the development of emerging technologies and disciplines based on large data." Guojie, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, said recently. In September-October this year, the Chinese Computer Society, the Chinese Society of communications and so on have set up a corresponding large data committee of experts.

The Expert committee of the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Economics (ECTE), in the autumn academic salon, put forward that the control and interpretation of massive data will become the basis of future competition and growth, the "big Data" led by the intelligent technology era to the information and communication industry to bring new opportunities and challenges.

In developed countries, manufacturing, banking, consumer marketing industry and so early into the big data era, all kinds of customer clicks, browsing, feedback and transaction records, constitute the basis of large data. Baidu's current total data is close to 1000PB, the number of stored pages close to 1 trillion, the data will be updated every day, the response to the user's request is billions of times. GE is investing 1.5 billion of billions of dollars in building a global software and Analysis Center, employing 400 data scientists to coordinate the work of 10,000 software engineers around the world through a common platform. The IBM Business Value Research Institute and the Oxford University Business School survey of thousands of executives around the world show that 63% of managers want large data technology to be combined with enterprise operations management practices to form the new core strengths of the enterprise. 28% of respondents are already starting a pilot deployment of large data.

Fang, deputy Dean of China Unicom Research Institute, believes that the large data industry is rapidly emerging, regardless of the access, storage, processing and service. To promote its development, we should do the top design and industry development planning from the height of strategy, standardize and model project, and improve the system construction in a forward-looking way, and use laws and regulations to guarantee the public nature, authenticity, security and privacy protection of large data.

What are the opportunities for telecom operators

Compared with the big foreign data, domestic it enterprises are not involved in this field much. But internet companies with a keen sense of smell are already ahead. Tencent launched the portal, Micro-blog, video, wireless cross-platform in-depth integration strategy, the cat launched the "Poly Stone Pagoda" platform. But at present, the big data of the Internet industry, mainly is to the own user data mining and application deepens.

The operator grasps many key data on the information communication network, including the network information, the user information, the position information and so on, through the corresponding processing processing may provide the Government, the profession, the enterprise, the individual and so on the more accurate service. IBM believes that data is the productivity of operators. But operators ' discovery and screening of data business value is a "blind spot". In addition, many experts invariably point out that with the increasing amount of data produced, stored and analyzed, users ' personal privacy is challenged in an unprecedented way. The size and strength of telecom operators and the identity of state-owned enterprises have more credibility than common it or internet companies in data security.

In recent years, telecom operators have implemented strategic transformation and vigorously developed data business in the condition of weak growth of traditional business. Zhou Jianming, party secretary of China Mobile Communications Group Design Institute Ltd., said big data would become the core engine for telecom operators to develop. But at the same time, big data poses huge challenges for both fixed and wireless broadband. Too fast traffic growth may bring down the quality of the network, will reduce the competitiveness of China's information network, but also indirectly reduce China's economic competitiveness. Therefore, operators should attach great importance to the network construction of large data era, but also to the smart management of broadband networks.

Chen Jinchao, Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Economic Experts committee, used the phrase "half fire, half sea water" to figuratively describe the opportunities and challenges of large data to the communications industry. Although telecoms operators have data, telecoms operators ' data services are not strong and low-level in the face of the burgeoning Internet, especially mobile internet services.

Lin Lehu, director of Shandong Communications Administration, said that large data for the traditional telecommunications operators is a new opportunity, but operators must keep up with the trend of development, while based on their own advantages to carry out innovation, to emancipate the mind, update the concept, avoid weaknesses, increase cooperation and seek a total win.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)