big data
& IoT
THE CHALLENGE AHEAD
Simon Bearne, commercial director at Next Generation Data, explains
why IoT fuelled Big Data demands HPC ready data centres.
H
aving the right data at
your fingertips whenever,
wherever and however you
want it for empowering
razor sharp decision
making. This is the Big Data/
IoT age, where mountains of
data collected from anyone and
anything are rapidly analysed and
transformed into actionable real
time information.
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This helps retailers, for
example, to monitor customer
web clicks to identify buying
trends; insurance firms to conduct
complex risk management
calculations; utilities to more
precisely capture industrial
and household energy usage
to forecast supply and predict
outages; meteorologists to more
accurately forecast storms and
issue alerts; oil and gas companies
to make more efficient and safer
drilling decisions.
The list goes on and serves
to highlight the importance and
pivotal role of modern, highly
connected fit for purpose data
centres. Just like the cloud, Big
Data and the Internet of Things
(IoT) ultimately require physical
elements to sustain them…