{"id":3011,"date":"2012-06-04T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2012-06-04T07:00:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:00:45","slug":"big-data-data-growth-presents-challenges-to-federal-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/big-data-data-growth-presents-challenges-to-federal-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data: Data Growth Presents Challenges to Federal Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal IT’s push towards the cloud<\/a> seems out of step with the traditional slow and plodding approach towards projects and technology that the Federal government is well known for. \u00a0It’s actually been a somewhat refreshing development. \u00a0Unfortuantely a new report on the Federal government and their adoption of Big Data and data analytics draws a profile of government that is more consistent of the traditional slow-moving government body. \u00a0NetApp sponsored Meritalk to perform\u00a0this research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Federal agencies are currently spending most of their IT dollars on the collection and capture of data rather than spending money on how to analyze or apply it. \u00a0Federal agencies currently have in total nearly1.61 petabytes of data collected, and that is expected to double over the next two years. \u00a0 Roughly a third of the data that’s currently being collected is unstructured data. \u00a0But when it comes to Big Data, Federal agencies report, on average, that they are at least three years away from being able to start take advantage of it.<\/p>\n

Federal agencies identified the following reasons for how Big Data could improve the way that agencies operate:<\/p>\n