Will Big Data Make IT Infrastructure Sexy Again?

Ah, big data. All of that information from mobile devices, social websites, interconnected sensors, and the Industrialized Internet of smart machines is tantalizing—especially since it means a renaissance in IT spending. But beyond the blue-sky revenue is a whole lot of technical and cultural turbulence.
In this insightful report, Mike Barlow looks into the expanding world of IT infrastructure, where storage is too small and networks too slow to handle the enormous amount of data coming. Find out why moving from centralized data to Hadoop clusters, and from data silos to realtime collaboration systems, is an exciting, profitable, and scary proposition.