Mobile. Cloud. Social Media. These have been the juggernauts most commonly referenced in the IT industry over the last few years. But, there is one other term brewing that is receiving almost as much attention: Big Data.

According to Pat Gelsinger, EMC president and chief operating officer, when there is an IT problem a real smart administrator would start probing around the network and try to figure out what’s going on.

“Now I want to be able to do that in an automated fashion. That’s an area for Big Data,” he told Information Week recently in an article entitled “EMC President: Cloud’s interesting but not dramatic”.

A huge amount of information is now being collected in remote and onsite cloud datacentres around the world. There is thus a rising need for new software solutions that tells IT leaders what to do when a problem arises or even …