- What you will discover
- The amount of digital data stored in the world grew relatively slowly until about 2010, at which point it took off exponentially. It is still growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24%. Cisco forecasts global IP traffic to rise from 121 EB/month in 2017 to 278 EB/month by 2021.
- BDA typically has four dimensions – High Volume (there is lots of it), High Velocity (it needs to be analyzed quickly), High Variety (it comes in many different formats) and High Veracity (it can be difficult to understand).
- Big Data Growth drivers – The Cloud, IoT, AI, ML, Robotics, VR, AR, Cybersecurity and so on, are the big investment themes of tomorrow and they all have one thing in common: they generate huge amounts of data.
- Ever since BDA, the world’s 300 or so hyperscale data centers that form the internet’s brain are under remorseless pressure to upgrade their IT infrastructure.
- Optimizing latency is the biggest challenge facing hyperscale data centers. The next big thing in data center technology is silicon photonics – the transfer of data between chips using rays of light. In theory, silicon photonics enable computing at the speed of light.