If you think Big Data’s big now, just wait

"Think about what happens when the Internet of Things becomes more pervasive. Endpoint devices in the trillions will be sending some information back to a compute engine…We as businesses and humans want to do something with that in real time."

"The promise of big data has ushered in an era of data intelligence. From machine data to human thought streams, we are now collecting more data each day, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. In fact, every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — by some estimates that’s one new Google every four days, and the rate is only increasing…,"

Ron Miller, TechCrunch

Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/08/11/big-data-on-the-rise/13890959/