{"id":459,"date":"2012-04-20T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2250702"},"modified":"2012-04-20T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:15:00","slug":"whats-so-big-about-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/whats-so-big-about-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s So Big About Big Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s almost a strange sounding phrase isn\u2019t it? The rise of the term \u201cBig Data\u201d has been popularized to describe those data sets we now juggle with in the new world of cloud computing and massively distributed databases, fueled as they are by the multiplicity of desktop and mobile devices that now interconnect with our global data mountain.<br \/>\nThe question now is whether companies are having Big Data problems\u2026 or whether they are perhaps having Big Data problems, with Big Data.<br \/>\nIt is widely agreed that the secret to coping with Big Data is analytics. Without analytics, Big Data is just lots of data. With analytics we can bring contextualized qualitative and quantitative meaning to our data and this means we can start to extract value from it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2250702\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s almost a strange sounding phrase isn\u2019t it? The rise of the term \u201cBig Data\u201d has been popularized to describe those data sets we now juggle with in the new world of cloud computing and massively distributed databases, fueled as they are by t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}