Forrester Analyst: Big Data isn't about Size #Interop | Linux Today

Forrester Analyst: Big Data isn’t about Size #Interop

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 8, 2012

Among the most hyped terms in IT today is Big Data. While there are those that might debate how large a data set need to be before it is Big Data, Forrester Analyst, Vanessa Alvarez is not among them.

At the Interop conference today, Alvarez took the stage in a session about Big Data and pronounced that the reality of Big Data is that the size of the data doesn’t matter.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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