Crowning the King of Data

February 14, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Crowning the King of Data

With a term like “Big Data”, you almost expect to see a buff surfer dude as the icon. But Big Data isn’t an organization, it is a term that is used to describe advanced data storage and technologies designed to handle high volume or fast moving data.

This topic was brought to our attention by The Register and their article, “Big Data in Context.” If you based its popularity on the number of times it is referred to as the best thing since, I don’t know, cheap RAM, then it is the technological version of a homecoming king. Does it warrant the attention it is getting?

There are many people and organizations out there making money on this term of the week (month, year, etc.). But it is worthy of the fame?

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.