Abhi Mehta on Big Data Factories - Hadoop World 2010 - theCUBE
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 30/04/2012

John Furrier, of SiliconAngle, asks the question "Is the role of data changing the business model?"  Abhi Mehta approaches this question with the introduction of his idea of big data factories, which are the next industrial revolution that will be fueled with data and bigger than the last industrial revolution.  That data has been democratized has entirely changed the game, with access and with the ability to store, mine, clean, analyze and produce solutions for data solutions unable to be thought of before.  With this fundamental shift in data, business plans are going to be radically different with a focus on big data -- now an ever more essential part of the business for a multitude of industries.  The ability to rapidly find information in the data will almost instantly help nearly every industry better cater to customers.  

Big data factories are changing software development as well by leveraging quantitative type principles with data that requires reasoning.  There is the new notion of pushing code to the data, instead of the other way around with the whole concept of big data being massive amounts of data.  Instead of moving the data, creating the ability to push the code to the data, thus freeing up the pipes to get the information needed.  By moving a few megabytes of code to terabytes of information is much easier than the other way around.  This will revolutionize the way information and data is analyzed by increasing the speed and accuracy.