IBM published an e-book Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data and here are some highlights:
- 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.
- 1 in 3 business leaders don’t trust the information they use to make decisions.
Every day:
- We create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data.
- 12 terabytes of Tweets.
- 5 million trade events
- 500 million daily call detail records.