China Computer newspaper Guo: Big data is not a big lie

The recent Forbes magazine published a "Big data is a big lie" in a signed article, the article author SAP Sybase global CTO Irfan Khan to those big data fans poured a basin of cold water. The cloud-computing market is still heating up, with http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14294.html "> 's Big Data boom is worse than cloud computing."





according to Irfan Khan, from the database to the data warehouse to today's large data, the rapid growth of data is a trend, and the corresponding data processing methods are also changing, improve, which is a spiral of the development process. The grim challenge of the so-called Big data is not as scary as people think. Irfan Khan that the big data is not the end of the world, nor the aliens, the enterprise's IT departments do not need to pose formidable posture.





in fact, "huge amount of data" is just a label for big data. In addition, the diversity of data, the complexity of management, and real-time analysis are the challenges that users must face in dealing with large data. BI (Business Intelligence) has a history of more than more than 30 years. With the help of the BI tool, an enterprise can analyze the data produced within a certain time period to support business decisions. In the large data age, the enterprise needs to face the constantly changing data, so it needs to process and analyze the data in real time, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of the data analysis, but also improves the accuracy of the enterprise predicting the future market changes. Whether the enterprise should adopt the Big Data analysis tool, is not decided by the amount of data that the enterprise has, so long as the enterprise has the demand of business forecast, should use large data analysis tool as soon as possible.





Many people think that big data means unstructured data. In fact, this is a "lie". In fact, more than 85% of the global data produced is indeed unstructured data. But in the current large data application, the enterprise mainly deals with the structured data. Today, many vendors with structured data processing tools are turning to Hadoop to find a good way to deal with unstructured data. However, most manufacturers of unstructured data analysis tools, but also the first to transform the unstructured data into structured data before processing.





Cloud computing has brought about changes in the IT infrastructure, and large data has been a powerful catalyst in the transformation of business. From this perspective, large data for the enterprise is a challenge, but also an opportunity to achieve business transformation. With the rise of large data applications, the need for new types of professionals such as data scientists and data analysts will become more urgent. Now, the management of foreign enterprises has emerged a new position-the chief data Officer (figuratively), whose responsibility is to achieve data governance while ensuring the operability of data.




The challenge of
big data is real. Instead of being a slave to big data, companies should be driven by pressure and should make big data a service for business decisions.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)