IDC forecasts 2015 Big Data market size or up to 16.9 billion dollars

Beijing time March 8 Morning News, Market Research Institute IDC published a report in Wednesday, predicting the big data market will be further 8084.html "> booming."

The report predicts that the market for large data technology and services will climb from $3.2 billion trillion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015. According to IDC, this will achieve an annual growth rate of 40%, and will be the entire IT and communications industry growth rate of 7 times times.

Technological developments, represented by large data, have been brewing for years, and are now becoming popular. The development of the big data industry includes the explosion of data, the advent of new data, such as network and sensor data streams, and the popularity of faster, cheaper, new hardware, such as in-memory data processing, and the rapid evolution of software tools is also a cause, especially in the field of artificial intelligence, such as machine learning and natural language processing.

IDC has defined large data in the report, which typically involves 2 or more data types. It collects more than 100TB of data, is a high-speed, real-time data stream, or starts with small data, but the data grows by more than 60% a year.

IDC cites a number of industry and government cases that use large data applications, including fine-tuning retail prices to store and consumer levels, optimizing the delivery time and route of products, predicting crime outbreaks in local police districts, and predicting the damage caused by the storm.

IDC market forecasts also show Big data has gone out of the "scientific research" phase, and gradually entered the mainstream business.

It is noteworthy that the application of large data is divergent and diverse.

"Our current use of large data is still superficial, but many of these data will be decomposed into more different types of data to provide more information to users," said Benjamin Wu, an IDC analyst who wrote the report. ”

Wu introduced his favorite large data application Padmapper. If he needs to find a new apartment, the program will be able to get a series of data on its own and overlay it on a community's Google Maps service, so that he can find a matching apartment by simply entering a personal rental budget and the number of bedrooms and toilets needed to rent it.

This procedure, after the integration of real estate information, provides housing that meets user standards and rents, can also provide crime statistics for the region (from the Crime Statistics network Spotcrime Web site) and transportation facilitation (from the Traffic situation website WalkScore) and other details related to the area.

"The numbers are very large, so there are many areas that we need to explore," Wu said.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)