Internet of Things era, highlighting the value of big data

Fifteen years ago, even the largest data warehouses in the United States were only a few terabytes in size and only a handful of large companies such as Wal-Mart and MasterCard had such huge data warehouses. Today, however, a great deal of data is generated from lifestyle shopping transactions to industrial manufacturing, from social media information, to online video images, from enterprise information management systems to government e-government. As data suddenly surges from the terabyte level to the PB (1PB = 1024TB) level, it is clear that the general conventional techniques have not been able to sustain the current demand.

In the future we can see, with the rapid development of the Internet of Things and the cloud computing industry, the value of big data will become more and more obvious. In the Internet of Things era, hundreds of millions of network sensors will be embedded in the real world countless devices, such as mobile phones, smart meters, automotive and industrial machines.

At the same time, the advent of cloud computing provides storage space for mass data generated by the Internet of Things and makes real-time online processing possible. In recent years, IT companies such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and Google have not only deployed multiple data centers around the world, but also spent $ 15 billion on software companies specializing in data management and analysis.

It's not hard to see that while people are still keen on speculation about the concept of things and cloud computing, the world's leading IT companies have begun to turn their attention to the big data behind the Internet of Things and cloud computing industries, and their potential value is being gradually Dig The judgment that "big data is more important than the Internet of Things and cloud computing" may be a bit exaggerated, but what is certain is that not only is cloud computing providing services such as cloud storage, but also intelligent processing of big data is not only a matter of cloud computing , It is the core and key.

According to IBM's CIO Insights from Global CIO Survey, 83% of CIOs have long-term plans that cover business intelligence and analytics, and CIOs are starting to focus more on data than on applications.

Now that big data is about enterprise intelligence, the ability to harness big data has naturally become a core competency of businesses that will help companies find the optimal model to support business decisions and ensure that the business decisions they make are closest to optimal .

Big data will gradually become part of an increasing number of CIOs over the next five years. On the one hand, the popularity of business intelligence, so that enterprises have a full understanding of the importance of the data; the other hand, the rise of new applications such as social media, e-commerce, Internet of things, breaking the original value chain as a business wall, only Analyzing the data from all aspects of the original value chain can no longer meet the demand. They need to break the data boundary with the help of big data strategy and understand the panorama of a more comprehensive operation and operation environment.