Rethinking 'Big Data' - And The Rift Between Business And Data Ops
CIO, Tuesday, May 7th, 2024
As an era, 'Big Data' may be over, but its underlying value (and tensions) live on, even as organizations seek to make the leap to an AI future.
When it broke onto the IT scene, Big Data was a big deal. Now, you'd be hard-pressed to find many IT leaders willing to be caught using the term anymore.
Still, CIOs should not be too quick to consign the technologies and techniques touted during the honeymoon period (circa 2005-2015) of the Big Data Era to the dust bin of history. There remains an enormous amount of value to be harvested from basic data blocking and tackling.