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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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