In the recent release of ‘2012 Hype Cycle Of Emerging Technologies,’ research analyst Gartner evaluated several technologies to come up with a list of technologies that will dominate the future . «Big Data» related technologies form a significant portion of the list, in particular the following technologies revolve around the concept and usage of Big Data.
These areas are just representative but in general many of the emerging technologies revolve around the ability to process large amounts of data from hither to unconventional sources and extract meaning out of them.