May 21, 2012
"If you take the current global daily Internet traffic and multiply it by two**, you are in the range of the data set that the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope will be collecting every day. This is Big Data Analytics to the extreme. With DOME we will embark on one of the most dataintensive science projects ever planned, which will eventually have much broader applications beyond radio astronomy research"

Quote by Ton Engbersen, IBM Research - Zurich.   Quote found in an IBM press release “From Big Bang to Big Data: ASTRON and IBM Collaborate to Explore Origins of the Universe”

Liked posts on Tumblr: More liked posts »