Technical Requirements for Big Data

One technical requirement for big data is storage space. With the vast amount of data collected between each industry that makes use of big data, it’s difficult to imagine how many megabytes, gigabytes or terabytes of data and information is required to be stored. This is why large corporations and businesses invest so much in reliable database servers and storage systems in order to contain and handle the data they collect. I found it surprising to know that storing big data wasn’t as expensive as I thought it would be and that there are actually low-cost solutions that organisations can use. 


Another technical requirement for big data is up to date analysis software that is capable of sorting structured and unstructured data. With the amount of data some companies collect and plan to process, a decent software program or application is required to distinguish which data is structured (clearly defined sets of data) and which is unstructured (data that is not easily searchable and contains a variety of types of data), and then sort that data in their respective groups.


References : 


https://www.computerweekly.com/podcast/Big-data-storage-Defining-big-data-and-the-type-of-storage-it-needs

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