Big data computing is as much about speed as a surge in data, and that will bring sweeping changes in the computer industry.

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Not today or tomorrow perhaps, but big data portends striking changes for the computer industry, predicted [John E.] Kelly of I.B.M. “It’s going to break all of the technology we have and it’s where the next big arena of value is going to be in this industry,” he said.

 

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