Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT explores the current information explosion — new types of data, generated by new devices, and used in new ways.
The Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT report explores the current information explosion — new types of data, generated by new devices, and used in new ways.
The report assesses extreme data along four dimensions — data everywhere, time and place, social connections and meaning — and examines the new business processes, interpersonal connections and knowledge that results.
The report urges organizations to leverage the opportunities presented by extreme data, for what is extreme today will be commonplace tomorrow.
It is remarkable how far we have come with digital information. Sensors can report the real-time status of an engine in the bowels of a ship so that costly emergency shut-downs can be avoided. Data from your car can report your actual driving behaviour and (hopefully) lower your insurance rates. From your home PC, you can access air quality and other EPA ratings for your town, or take an aerial ‘fly over’ of your neighbourhood or just about anywhere in the world.
An information explosion is underway, giving rise to an era of extreme data and dramatic new applications. Extreme data is new types of data, generated by new devices, and being used in new ways – enabling new business processes, interpersonal connections, and knowledge for organizations and individuals. Ed Luczak explores four types of extreme data: data everywhere, time and place, social connections and meaning, and show how this is changing the way businesses need to think about information and IT.
An overview of the CSC Leading Edge Forum, Technology Program.
See event: Extreme Data: Rethinking the "I" in IT (2 Nov 2005)
Paul Gustafson explores four types of extreme data: data everywhere, time and place, social connections and meaning.
See event: The Future of the IT Organization