By Sue Poremba

Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting.

The term “big data” may be a bit of a misnomer. For some companies, big data is actually huge data. Even small companies now find themselves immersed in massive amounts of data of all sorts, which leads to the problem of storing all of it.

Enter the big data cloud storage solutions, which allow companies to store and access media by the terabyte. Storage by the terabyte may have seemed unfathomable just a few years ago, but according to John Griffith of SolidFire, by today’s standards, terabytes of block storage really isn’t all that much.

“Many service providers look at opportunity in hundreds or thousands of terabytes.  Between storage hungry database applications and other mission critical systems, terabytes of data can be consumed rather quickly,” Griffith …