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Big Data and the 2012 Summer Olympics

August 7th, 2012
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games [image courtesy www.london2012.com].

Over the past year, we have blogged extensively in this space about the promise of "big data" -- noting the enormous volume and heterogeneity of data, as well as the velocity of its generation, across nearly all areas of science, engineering, and society. Now, California-based enterprise storage and data management company NetApp has produced an infographic describing big data at the 2012 Summer Olympics, ...