Big Data is certainly a 21st century problem. As the story goes, in the early 1980s Bill Gates said, “640K ought to be enough for anyone.” Apparently Gates didn’t actually say that, but that doesn’t matter. The point is that merely 30 years ago, industry leaders were discussing data in terms of 640K. Now, enterprises store terabytes of data and need networks capable of up to 100G. That’s 104,857,600K! Due to incredible advances in IT, businesses everywhere now have nearly inconceivable amounts o... read more