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Sharing some screen shots from the Keynote session ( by Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman, President and CEO, and Jeremy Burton, EVP, Product Operations and Marketing ) available on   http://bit.ly/PyFL4A  and some key take aways. Just amazed to see the way EMC has transformed and enabling others in this transformation Digital Universe is Growing Faster than Expected  Cloud Computing Transforms IT It's all FLASH  Storage - Network and Sever - EMC Working on building products to address data at all levels ( Project X, Project Thunder and VFCache ) Data Scientist and Data Science are HOT Software Defined Data Centers are coming Putting a Face of Big Data - #HFOBD - The Biggest Crowd-sourced Project   Also, some good works going on Big Data Analytics with Greenplum Chorus and UAP. Not to forget the Massive Parallel Processing capabilities and Scale-out Stor...

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...