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estimated that 7 exabytes of new data enterprises globally were stored in 2010. Interestingly, more
than 50% of IP traffic is nonhuman, and M2M will become increasingly important. So what is Big
Data supposed to create? Value.
But what value exactly? Big Data per se does not produce any value. David Gorbet of MarkLogic
explains : the increase in data complexity is the biggest challenge that every IT department and CIO
must address. Businesses across industries have to not only store the data but also be able to
leverage it quickly and effectively to derive business value. Value comes only from what we infer
from it. That is why we need Big Data Analytics. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, describes Big
Data Analytics as follows [3]: in the old world of data analysis you knew exactly which questions you
wanted to asked, which drove a very predictable collection and storage model. In the new world of
data analysis your questions are going to evolve and changeover time and as such you need to be
able to collect, store and analyze data without being constrained by resources.
According to MGI, the value that can be derived by analyzing Big Data can be spelled out as
follows:
Creating transparencies;