Whenever New Year celebrations kick start, news stations run their yearly recap montages in a thrilling, cinematic fashion. So while we may lack some of the pyrotechnics of those broadcasts, you can still anticipate a lot of excitement from this 2014 Big Data recap. After all, Big Data is such a hot topic of conversation, even the White House is talking about it – but more on that in a bit.
Back when the year started, we discussed how much organizations were spending on Big Data compared to other IT areas (the tally was $34 million according to Gartner). While we are still waiting on the financial figures to come across to draw a direct comparison, there are some other interesting numbers to chew on.