The Data Explosion: Processing, Storage, and the Cloud

Big data is going to help solve big problems: how we grow food;
how we deliver supplies to those in need; how we cure disease.
But first, we need to figure out how to handle it.


Modern life is filled with connected gadgets. We now produce more
data in a day than we did over thousands of years. Kenneth Cukier
explains how data has changed, and how it’s beginning to change
us. Dr. Ellen Grant tells us how Boston Children’s Hospital is
using open source software to transform mountains of data into
individualized treatments. And Sage Weil shares how Ceph’s
scalable and resilient cloud storage helps us manage the data
flood.


Gathering information is key to understanding the world around
us. Big data is helping us expand our never-ending mission of
discovery.


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