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Big Data Origins    (The Beginning of


       Cloud?)







       Big Data was originally conceived to deal                                                                                          Big Data software was

       with projects and ‘applications’ that                                                                                              designed to deal with

       produced huge, multi terabytes /                                                                                                   these very large data


       petabytes of data                                                                                                                  sets such that a
                                                                                                                                          criteria could be
               • E.g. Google, seti project, CERN, IoE                                                                                     searched for and a

               • These projects collect so much data they                                                                                 result found in a

                  cannot be processed on a single system                                                                                  reasonable amount of


               • Data is collected in many formats and                                                                                    time. Many of these
                                                                                                                                          data sets are
                  conversion to information can be complex                                                                                petabytes in size and

               • Big Data software aims to analyse the data                                                                               normal search

                  by categorising and reordering into                                                                                     algorithms just don’t

                  meaningful groups                                                                                                       cope












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