EMC DSSD D5: Extreme Performance in a Shared Storage Environment

Big data analytics are rapidly becoming mainstream IT functions for organizations of all sizes. The ability to capture and analyze massive data sets is leading to opportunities both profound and mundane: from truly life-saving medical breakthroughs and disaster forecasting to fraud detection and improved business agility. Businesses recognize the impact this type of analysis can make, particularly as they prepare for the huge amount of data that will be generated by the Internet of Things. This increase in the importance of analytics is supported by ESG research, in which business intelligence/data analytics initiatives have risen from the eighth most-cited response on the IT priority list in 2015 to the second most-cited in 2016, after cybersecurity.