Big Data

Big Data

Australia might be at the end of the mining boom, but it's just kicking off the data mining boom. Big data is going to be a truly hot topic in 2014, with IDC predicting that spend on big data technologies worldwide will grow by 30 per cent over the next year. Interest in big data, and other what IDC calls "third-platform technologies" such as cloud, mobile, and social networking, will account for 89 per cent of the growth that will see total global IT spend top $2.1 trillion in 2014.

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