The Top Five Questions to Ask Before Embarking on a Big Data Project

by Jim Gallo

Because Big Data is everywhere todayin the tech news, it's more important than ever to get past the hype and seewhat, if anything, it means for you.

First of all, we have to get beyond the idea that Big Datais just about two things: volume and a technology -- Hadoop, in this case. While both of these play a central rolein defining and working with Big Data, neither is sufficient to explain whatBig Data is and why it's going to be so important to businesses in the verynear future.

You've probably heard of the "3 Vs" of Big Data:volume, variety and velocity. Each of these by itself only makes up part of thestory, but mix and match them and you have the beginnings of a workingdefinition.

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