The explosion of data as currency is not a bad thing.
"The explosion of data analytics gives us an opportunity in this market," Mr. Basile said.
"The biggest change facing corporations is the explosion of data," said David Grossman, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.
COMPUTER scientists have long tried to foist order on the explosion of data that is the internet.
"The biggest change facing corporations is the explosion of data," says David Grossman, a technology analyst at Stifel Nicolaus.
The explosion of data from sensors, connected devices and powerful cloud computing centers has created the Big Data industry.
To illustrate the explosion of data, he takes out his iPhone and opens a free app that measures his heart's electrical activity through his fingertips.
"You do have to take into account that the explosion of data is what aids and abets this," said Mr. Taylor of the Uptime Institute.
"This huge explosion of data is driving a movement to design systems around workloads because it is the only way to deliver the computation needed, and it's far more energy-efficient," said Kunle Olukotun, a computer scientist at Stanford.
Is there anybody with any ideas?" Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, argues in his book "The New Censorship" that the explosion of data in digital media keeps us from seeing how extensively information is controlled.
"We're at the start of a multibillion-dollar economic shift based on cheap bandwidth, storage and computing, and an explosion of data," said Zachary Bogue, one of four partners organizing the fund.
