In Let us try and get some informed opinions about big data from a few senior IT professionals:
B Muthukumaran, IT Professional & Consultant:
Big data is emerging as the most influential aspect in the enterprise, enabling business growth and leading to an era of data-driven decisions. CIOs, CTOs and IT managers are extending the strategic advantage of big data to business. This new kid on the block calls for a different skill set and level of unlearning. There are spectrums of various technologies built over evolving platforms that need to be mastered to handle data ripples and changing data patterns representing the key basis of competition. Big data has its sphere of influence around best management practices.
Amit Phadke, Head, Systems & Technology, Kale Consultants Ltd:
The definition or size of big data varies from organisation to organisation. For some, it may be hundreds of GB, for others it might be hundreds of TB. However, this data deluge is going to bring in technical change in areas of distributed databases, parallel processing of databases, scalable and tiered storage systems, tiering at server level, InfiniBand or equivalent GBoE networks, etc, which will challenge IT managers. IT managers will enforce functional style changes in the way data is consolidated, compressed, backed up, made available during disasters, keeping or improving the performance of applications.
N Ranganathan, Manager - IT, M&M Financial Services Ltd:
Change in the style of functioning of IT managers will depend on the current working environment. With big data coming in, IT managers need to focus on building structures that allow them to access it more easily, augment it and manipulate it faster. The IT manager needs to address big data challenges, as the business case arises, and be the best supporting actor to the heroic role of his CIO. Leaders believe there is information locked up that can help them make better decisions. IT teams will be spending more time working closely with marketing and business users as they have the biggest data [related] requirements.
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