Big data will be the most important means of production in the future?

Large data, is the most popular and important technical topic in recent years. August 31, Baidu held the third phase of big, please come to wearable equipment and large data field prestigious world class Authority Professor Alex Pentland, with Baidu Hundred together to explore the future of large data and wearable equipment. Alex Pentland bluntly that he doesn't use wearable equipment in his life, because now technology and should not be very mature, I also agree with this judgment, we will focus on the discussion of Big Data topic.

Is the value of large data overvalued?

Now simply talking about big data has no real meaning, it has to be combined with cloud computing to play its part. A complete large data application should include data acquisition, storage, analysis and application. Now use the browser to visit Sina, the first page of the middle department out of the Jingdong mall ads, is always very coincidental to meet your mind, this is actually a large number of specific application of data. By collecting the user's recent shopping habits and search content, give a very targeted merchandise promotional ads, this targeted ads will naturally lead to a stronger purchase conversion rate. The significance of large data, it will be a very important part of future business.

But some scholars have suggested that large data will be the most important means of production in the future. There are also manufacturers to put forward the "Data planet," the loud slogan, but in my observation, large data has a very obvious two sides, some large data is very important and valuable, but the vast majority of discrete data is useless, mining large data on the one hand can produce high value, but also can bring heavy cost burden to the enterprise. What we usually see is the positive meaning of large data, but the flip side of the magnifying glass will have a different payoff.

Every productive force in human history has a major breakthrough, and the contention for the core means of production will cause violent disputes and even brutal wars. So far, the human race for oil resources is still a major cause of local wars. But there is no sign that humans will be fighting for control of big data, so to some extent, the big data is not yet up to the strategic height of the most important means of production.

It industry in the process of technological development, the new concept of technology has never been interrupted. The idea of large data can not be separated from the real background of the Internet penetrating into various industries, the increasing volume of data, the complexity of data, and the difficulty of identifying and selecting useful data are all troubling users, so it is natural to have a huge business opportunity, which is the root cause of it vendors ' enthusiasm for large data concepts and businesses.

Discrete static data itself does not have much value, only through effective means of refining, analysis, can make large data gold, so in the large data industry's ecological chain, the real value is data extraction, mining and analysis, rather than the data prototype itself.

Big data is the core of future business?

In the past, I saw an application case published by an enterprise, said a town bank governor said, "site selection, people are still small things, the biggest problem is IT system construction." "What if they choose an enterprise's IT solution?" I am in this meager comment is: This is a failure of the propaganda case, because it is not true, no account of the small town Bank is the most deadly, it construction is important, but also do not get too far from the reality of the degree.

This is a very common phenomenon, it vendors in the promotion of successful cases often the IT construction description of the immortal medicine, but in fact IT system construction is to enhance efficiency, standardize the business process tools and helpers, commercial customers in the business of the most important resource advantages, business models and other core competitiveness, is not actually built an IT system can replace. When I buy a pair of sneakers, the most important is discomfort, and choose where to eat lunch the main consideration is which store taste good, clean and reassuring, although these business, Nike or KFC built the IT system played a role, and even played a direct source of the role of the line, but for consumers, Whether it can be a repeat guest, those IT systems are not the key.

Therefore, large data providers should have a clearer positioning of their own, that is due to the business process service providers and assistants, and can not rob the mirror to become someone else in the business process of the protagonist.

If the big data industry is to really explode, it needs to make the majority of enterprises have the benefit of large data, and with large data technology to help them find more users, make more money, they are willing to invest more money and resources, it is possible to form a benign interaction.

But now the big data beneficiaries come mainly from internet companies or IT companies with superb it technology, and most industries have yet to reap real business value from the big Data wave.

Sand is not important, the important thing is the gold rush; data itself can not directly produce value, mining, analysis, application of the link is the focus of data value.

Cost problems that big data can't avoid

For a large and medium-sized enterprise that has launched an EPR system, it is possible to face a number of terabytes or even larger volumes of business data increments each month, and businesses will have to pay large data storage, backup, and security defense spending.

On the one hand, we must recognize that the launch of information systems will greatly enhance the flow of information and sharing, to help improve the efficiency of business processes, but on the other hand, also increased the cost of enterprises.

Someone has done a figurative metaphor, the valuable data is like the golden grains in the sand, rare and precious. Many companies are backing up their data in order to keep the gold grains, and build large warehouses that are big enough to fit in the sand. I would like to extend this analogy to one step, that is, the manufacturers of large data solutions for you to save the sand, from your hands to take the gold, and you scour the whole storehouse of gold from the sand, probably more than you spend to buy sand. If you don't have a good alchemy, don't spend so much money building warehouses, and there's no need to keep so much sand.

In the professional large data storage and backup market, the weight ratio and compression ratio are important indicators, but in the real project implementation, because the useful Data folder in a large number of useless information, users often in the process of data storage spent a lot of money. Data mining can produce huge commercial value, but at the same time a large number of worthless data will cost a lot of money, so we should have an input-output concept of large data, rather than focus on the benefits of large data, but ignore the cost of large data.

Large data are sometimes fragile and dangerous sources

In the IT enterprise vigorously publicize cloud computing and large data value of time, in fact, few manufacturers dare to Pat Chest said I can 100% guarantee information security issues.

In this spring, China's cloud Computing Industry Forum, the domestic information experts have clearly pointed out that the government and other information security sensitive customers, must not use the public cloud. So for customers with high security requirements, the security implications of large data are enough to make them daunting for large data applications.

Using professional storage backup and information security software can greatly reduce the probability of data corruption and theft, but only a reduced probability. I am very optimistic about the big data market, which will be the most profitable cake in the IT industry in the future. Because the original big data is fragile and vulnerable, most of us and most businesses need to spend more money to protect it.

Large data is an extremely important technical tool in the future, and it has the potential to have a significant impact on the existing business community. But I think in a short time, big data will not become the core of modern business society, nor will it become the most important factor of production. Like a meager rainy night to help information, you can let many people know that you need vehicle assistance at Sanyuan Bridge, but the real can send you to those who are in the middle of the midnight at the risk of a huge flood of enthusiastic citizens and the car wading damaged.

You can observe, now talk about big data and cloud computing is mainly the manufacturers, they are so keen, is not the fundamental purpose is to sell more High-performance servers or network equipment?

People, the protagonist of modern life, and large data is only a derivative of human activities, although the matrix of this is a doubt, but at least in the world and the dimensions I observed is this.