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When it comes to storage infrastructure, few topics have been more talked about in 2011 than the phenomenon of ‘Big Data’ — the exponential growth of data — largely off the back of the huge transactional systems which underpin global commerce — which must be stored, backed up and archived.
For IBRS analyst, Kevin McIsaac, part of why Big Data has become such an issue is the fact that while transactional data has been piling up, unstructured data, such as Word and Excel files, videos, photographs, emails and the like has grown exponentially.