The Economist catches the Big Data wave

At Causata we spend all our time with Big Data and so it's nice to see the Economist (current issue) produce a special report (written by Kenneth Cukier) about the explosion of data and the technologies needed to process it.

The business of information management—helping organisations to make sense of their proliferating data—is growing by leaps and bounds. In recent years Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP between them have spent more than $15 billion on buying software firms specialising in data management and analytics. This industry is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion and growing at almost 10% a year, roughly twice as fast as the software business as a whole.

In addition to the special report there's an interview with the report's author:

Part of the Economist article was driven by a report from O'Reilly called Big Data: Technologies and Techniques for Large-Scale Data.

O'Reilly produced a set of interviews to accompany that report. Here's the first:

The rest can be found here.

John.