A Smarter Planet

From the World Wide Web to the Web Wide World

Jack Mason

Jack Mason
Location
New York, USA
Title
Global Business Services, Strategic Programs
Company
IBM
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I'm working on IBM's Smarter Planet initiative, which is about the global evolution from the "World Wide Web" to a "Web Wide World" ... a planetary infrastructure that is pervasively instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. http://smarterplanet.tumblr.com

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Salon.com
OCTOBER 1, 2012 6:13PM

Big Data is a New Category, Distinct From Other Technologies Big...

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Big Data is a New Category, Distinct From Other Technologies

Big data describes the continuous processing of very large, public, and changing data sets using distributed data processing and data storage systems. There is no question that mainframes and super-computers process very large and changing data sets – but they process centrally and use proprietary data sets.

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