In Maria Deutscher’s article in SiliconANGLE, Cisco Predicts Internet of Things will Generate 500 Zettabytes of Traffic by 2019, she covers Cisco’s predictions for traffic created by a connected universe. Essentially, more devices are getting connected to the Internet, which translates to much more unstructured data being generated over the next five years. The prediction is over 500 zettabytes annually. At the same time, cloud consumption is expected to quadruple in the next five years, as more apps and data move to the cloud.

While this is definitely interesting, it leaves many of us wondering what companies can do to harness insights hidden in this data and create business value. Technology is not the limiter – we’re seeing amazing advances in computing, like massively parallel processing (MPP), machine learning, automation, and other enabling technologies, such as networking and storage. In my mind, there are several fundamental questions that we need to consider in order to be better prepared to handle and analyze this massive volume of data. 


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