Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Big Data


Big Data has been the new talk in technology these days. Big Data is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. As technology continues to advance, people become more reliant on technology to keep things in storage and just to do things faster. Big Data is a very dangerous thing and yet, it can be both a bad and good thing depending on the level of control we have over the amount of data that is storing information every day. Big Data has been a useful tool for research and the government. It is very useful to store new information that you might find out about in science since we are always discovering new things about the world we live in. Sometimes the large amount of information we collect can get too hard to keep so we rely on the never ending storage, data. Big Data is a very convenient storage for everyone to use. In our society right now, being fast and efficient is the pace that most people work in. It makes life easier for people to have the storage there to store your information anytime you want. Our dependence on technology and Big Data has become such a big part of everyone’s lives that it would be strange without it. But Big Data isn't always a good thing. In Big Data there is more and more personal information that can get stored since there is so much storage, but there is always a chance that the information can leak for some reason. Big Data makes people more comfortable with sharing information online. Also with so much data storage and more data getting stored, there can be a chance that it gets uncontrollable at some point and it might end up being revealed to everyone.