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Big Data is all the rage today. There's a lot of buzz about how it will transform your business with diagnostics and dashboards distributed directly to business users.

The truth is someday Big Data will do just that… if your organization can clear a few hurdles in getting it under control. This booklet is designed to get you out in front of the challenge of managing The Truth About Big Data in your organization and unravel the myths behind what Big Data is and the management solutions that will work to unlock its value.

MODERN DATA WAREHOUSE

You need a new kind of data warehouse to handle the exponentially growing volume of data, the variety of semi-structured and unstructured data types, and the velocity of real-time data processing. The Microsoft modern data warehouse solution integrates your traditional data warehouse with unstructured big data—and it can handle data of all sizes and types, with real-time performance.

There are massive volumes of information out there just waiting to be turned into actionable insights, and you need a powerful platform to make sense of it. With SQL Server in-memory columnstore, you’ll get up to 100x faster query performance. And with the Polybase capabilities in Microsoft’s Analytics Platform System (APS), and in SQL Server 2016, you’ll have the ability to query across relational and non-relational sources like Hadoop.

The Data Center: Driving the New Digital Services

Economy

The digital economy is driving a virtuous cycle where connected devices and cloud-powered services are generating data and insights from that data are driving further innovation, releasing new services and businesses back into the world. More than ever before, the data center is the engine that will enable your organization to stay ahead in an ever-changing business environment and make the kind of impact that can change the world.

Modern data centers are rapidly moving toward software-defined infrastructure (SDI) as the next-generation foundation for dynamic and agile IT operations. Intel® technology—spanning software, processor, storage, I/O, and networking solutions—combined with a massive ecosystem of solution partners, is helping transform today’s data center into the New Center of Possibility for every business. From big data analytics to cloud-powered innovation and network transformation, find out how building the data center with SDI can help your business thrive.

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The truth about big data: it's more than technology Big data is a maddeningly broad concept, in part because it represents a new, iterative

approach to solving problems

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