Big Data in the Big Picture

March 15, 2013 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Big Data in the Big Picture

Big data continues to change the landscape of IT, in software, hardware, and personnel. Information architecture reaches beyond the actual nuts and bolts of IT; it involves vision about the overall. Big picture, some would say.

This interesting topic was inspired by an article found on Computer Weekly titled, “Big data spells new architectures.” Looking to the historical elements in business intelligence, we must learn from our past. How organizations are handling big data, both in storage and visualization, is key to what corporate IT will look like a decade from now.

According to Mark Madsen, president of the consulting firm Third Nature, “The role of IT changes with cloud infrastructure, software as a service, applications moving outside, and so on. And so we are not managing servers, or databases, or applications (other than some security administration). Our job, as IT, revolves entirely around one thing — data integration..”

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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.