{"id":5234,"date":"2015-02-27T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2015-01-23T11:43:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:43:57","slug":"big-data-choosing-medium-instead-of-big-when-right-sizing-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/big-data-choosing-medium-instead-of-big-when-right-sizing-your-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data: Choosing ‘Medium’ Instead of ‘Big’ When ‘Right-Sizing’ Your Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big Data is the rage, but the reality now is that most businesses really don’t have data sets that large to be classified as ‘Big Data’.<\/p>\n

Gartner analysts\u00a0Merv Adrian<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Nick Huedecker<\/a>\u00a0note that Hadoop and Big Data projects have been<\/a>\u00a0“slow to grow so far.”<\/p>\n

Harper Reed<\/a>, Chief Technology Officer at Obama for America 2012,\u00a0said that<\/a>\u00a0most businesses\u00a0“probably have medium data. \u00a0Big Data has now come to represent analytics tools, not the data itself.”<\/p>\n

Matt Hunt<\/a>, open source project lead at Bloomberg,\u00a0said that<\/a>\u00a0“what we have is a ‘medium data’ problem — and so does everyone else. \u00a0 Systems such as Hadoop and Spark are less efficient and mature for these typical low latency enterprise uses in general. High core counts, SSDs, and large RAM footprints are common today – but many of the commodity platforms have yet to take full advantage of them, and challenges remain.”<\/p>\n

Tableau calls Medium Data the “New sweet spot.<\/a>” \u00a0It is a way to ‘right size<\/a>‘ your data analytics efforts.<\/p>\n

David Rothschild<\/a>, an economist with Microsoft Research,\u00a0is quoted<\/a>\u00a0in a piece by \u00a0Haniya Rae<\/a>\u00a0saying that “people have gotten really excited about big data. \u00a0It\u2019s a massive amount of discussion about individual products, but in some ways it\u2019s thinner than we give it credit for.” \u00a0Rothschild says that ‘Big Data’ analytics tools can ‘supercharge’ smaller data-source projects. \u00a0“Not to say that Big Data isn’t valuable, but medium data proves to be more valuable on a day-to-day basis.”<\/p>\n

Tableau\u00a0notes that<\/a>\u00a0\u2018medium\u2019 isn\u2019t bad, in fact, with “a bell curve, when you’re in the middle, you’re really on top.”<\/p>\n

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Big Data is the rage, but the reality now is that most businesses really don’t have data sets that large to be classified as ‘Big Data’. Gartner analysts\u00a0Merv Adrian\u00a0and\u00a0Nick Huedecker\u00a0note that Hadoop and Big Data projects have been\u00a0“slow to grow…<\/span><\/p>\n

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