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As a follow up from my earlier post on  International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Analytics #ICCBDA 2013 , we are pleased to invite you to Day 1 event - EMC Academic Forum 2013 -

The 6th edition of Digital Universe Study was released today. The EMC-sponsored study by IDC, measures and characterizes all the digital data created, replicated, and consumed worldwide in a single year. The 2012 report projects the growth of the Digital Universe through 2020.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here are some of the key findings from the same -   New IDC Digital Universe study, “ Big Data, Bigger Digital Shadows, and Biggest Growth in the Far East ”¹ (sponsored by EMC) finds that only a tiny fraction of the world’s Big Data potential is being realized, though the amount of useful data is expanding.  IDC projects that the digital universe will reach 40 zettabytes (ZB) by 2020, an amount that exceeds previous forecasts by 5 ZBs, resulting in a 50-fold growth from the beginning of 2010. This year’s study marks the first time IDC was able to capture where the information in the digital un...

We live in a world of Big Data . This year alone, over a trillion gigabytes of new data will be created globally. Big Data presents a big challenge – but also exciting new opportunities for enterprises to rise above the competition.  Keeping this in mind, the teams at  EMC   and Greenplum launched  Real Big Data (  www.therealbigdata.com ) -  as a place for the latest news and discussions in the world of  Big Data . In the last few months, the team has built a series of guides with some very good information on Big Data .  You may download the same from the link below -   Big Data: A CIO’s Cut Out and Keep Guide -  Every now and then something comes along that has the potential to change the face of business as we know it. Currently big data is being touted as that thing, and CIOs everywhere need to get a grip on what it is and how it can benefit their company.  Big Data: Riding the Wave | A Guide for IT ...

A very good reference for an organization adopting Cloud and Big Data is -  EMC's IT Team . At EMC World 2012, the team shared some insight into the new roles gaining wider adoption in their journey to IT-as a service.  Here are interesting shots from the session : 

Big data  (also spelled Big Data) is a general term used to describe the voluminous amount of unstructured and semi-structured data a company creates -- data that would take too much time and cost too much money to load into a relational database for analysis. Although Big data doesn't refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data. To clarify matters, the three Vs of volume, velocity and variety are commonly used to characterize different aspects of big data. Big data is being enabled by inexpensive storage, a proliferation of sensor and data capture technology, increasing connections to information via the cloud and virtualized storage infrastructures, and innovative software and analysis tools. Big data is not a "thing" but instead a dynamic/activity that crosses many IT borders. IDC defines it this way:  Big data technologies describe a new generation of...