According to TechTarget, a recent IDC forecast revealed enterprises will create and capture an estimated 6.4 zettabytes of new data in 2020. This firehose of data is coming into the enterprise from a variety of sources: servers, smartphones, websites, social media networks, e-commerce platforms, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. And the spigot is growing larger by the day.
Can the typical enterprise handle this flood of data—and if so, can they analyse it well enough to reap its benefits? Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, discussed this issue with me in a recent BriefingsDirect podcast, How the Journey to Modern Data Management is Paved with an Inclusive Edge-to-Cloud Data Fabric.
