A flood of new ‘smart’ devices,
increased penetration of cellular networks, and increase in internet
bandwidth capacities has given rise to ‘big data’ – which is what the
industry calls data sets that grow so large that they are difficult to
handle with commonly-used hardware and software tools. As increasingly
greater volumes of information get digitized, handling the data that is
being generated has become problematic in terms of storage, maintenance
and recoverability.
‘Big data cloud computing’ and
‘virtualization’ are the latest trends in the tech industry, which are
changing the dynamics of how organizations and individuals will handle
data solutions in the future.
Cloud computing is a model for
delivering tech services, in which online resources are retrieved
through web-based tools and applications, rather than a direct
connection to a server. Cloud computing allows users access to
information as long as they have access to the web. By using the cloud,
users are able to minimize the cost of maintaining their own hardware
and software, since these are provided by the cloud service provider
through its own centralized systems. read more.
