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Big Data: United Nations Offers Big Data Standard, but Can it Gain Traction?
When it comes to Big Data one thing that’s been missing is standards. There is a myriad of products but interoperability isn’t a high priority design feature.
Frank Walton, Faculty Member at City College of New York, says that “there’s chaos in the industry right now because there are no commonly accepted industry standards.”
Dale Wickizer, former NetApp chief technology officer for the U.S. Public Sector, said that “standards are the things that help people through the terrifying aspects of new and emerging markets. The expectation in the enterprise is that things will interoperate, so that will drive the need for standards in big data.”
Matthew Martin, a solutions architect at Merlin International, said that “government definitely prefers [to have standards], but it can’t wait forever because it’s faced with serious data problems now. Agencies may have to move forward anyway [with big data] because they have a mission to meet.”
Finally, late last year a standard for Big Data was officially released, and surprisingly, the sponsor of the standard was the United Nations. But this may not be the standard that people have been looking for.
Alan Duncan, a research director with Gartner, said that “we’re somewhat skeptical around the area of international standards in the data space. We have not really seen any of them have a huge amount of traction. The rationale for having standards is to make things interoperable, but in big data, that’s already happened at a practical level, driven by the need for vendor solutions to be able to work together.”
