2011 Digital Universe Study by IDC, sponsored by EMC
Textual excerpts: Extracting Value from Chaos
Multimedia: The 2011 Digital Universe Study: Extracting Value from Chaos
Lots of impressive (scary?) numbers about the expansion of the digital universe.
I rather liked the first technical call to action:
Investigate the new tools for creating metadata — the information you will need to understand which data is needed when and for what. Big data will be a fountain of big value only if it can speak to you through metadata.
And that no present metadata methodology was cited as “the” solution.
Sounds like we all have a lot of work and experimenting ahead of us.
I don’t think we are ever going to find the technology solution to any issue in the Digital Universe. Our companions are too busy inventing new issues and reinventing old ones in new guises for that to happen.