Big Data

Big Data

 The amount of data being produced worldwide is enormous and growing quickly. According to IBM, approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes (2.5 exabytes) of data are created daily and 90% of the world's data was just created in the past two years!. According to a digital universe study, the global data supply reached 2.8 zettabytes (equal to 2.8 trillion gigabytes) in 2012. Big data application deals with such massive amounts of data and this field is growing quickly, creating lots of opportunity for software developers. According to a study by Gartner Group, over 4 million IT jobs globally will support big data by 2015.