You might have heard the term "Big Data" being discussed.
The large amount of data that companies are processing
daily. But have you ever thought how companies take care of
such large amounts of data? How the data is migrated and
moved between servers?
Imagine that large amount of data we're generating every day
is increasing exponentially every year and the amount of
data that was considered extremely large two decades ago is
now being generated in a matter of seconds. The data we've
had in our largest storages - can today be kept in the
pocket.
But now we've got new challenges and the data is just
increasing and today, you'll see something interesting that
Amazon Web Services are providing for their customers.
Well, as companies are expanding and migrating from
on-premise to cloud providers - they also have to bring
their data with them.
Larger companies that have
huge amount of data to transfer and if they would transfer
their data over the network cable, it would have taken ages
(literally).
Companies solved this with larger
disks that can carry up to terabytes of data, which is much
- but not enought for some of them. This is where
Amazons Snowmobile
data 14 meters truck comes into the picture.
They
have created this solution to optimize cloud migration
(moving data to the cloud), and it works. In their truck,
they can move up to 100 PB data in one way, and if you would
do some rounds to move exabytes of data to their cloud, they
increased the speed by years. Instead of moving exabytes of
data for 26 years, they can now do it in 6 months
instead.
Their solution works like this:
You make an order of a Snowmobile and they arrive with the truck.
Load the truckYou connect the truck with the fiber cable to your datacenter and let the process work.
Fill your AWS dataThey take your data in the truck and some weeks later you'll see your data in the cloud. Simple as that.
Well, as we know, the amount of data expanding expremely
fast and some of the largest companies are generating
hundreds of petabytes of data daily. It's hard to grasp how
much that is, but if we would image it in MP3 songs, it
would round up to
200 million songs.
Just imagine how much data is stored in
Facebook servers on their
2.7 billion users
and how much every image, chat conversation and post has to
take.
Facebook is not the only one which has
billions of people using the software and the data is
flowing different directions all day, every day, every week,
every year. Banks, stock markets, other social media
channels, Amazon data storage, Google searches – all of
them.
This is huge and it’s just increasing.
With the high volume of software services, consumers have
everything online and the datacenters are taking care of
everything in their machinery. Almost every website and
business are regularly collecting large amounts of data, all
of which can be classified as Big Data, and that’s big.
In 2020, Big Data is essential for companies. These large
amounts of collected data provide excellent insight into the
user experience.
Companies such as Netflix,
collect all the data points from their users to recommend
you the movies that they liked, which you might like as
well. Or large companies such as Amazon, where the product
recommendations just know what you want – before you even
know that you want it.
This is processed by huge
amount of data and it’s tweaking the algorithm and
suggestions for you, so you make a purchase. The customers
are getting a greater experience and the companies increase
their revenue. With Big Data there’s tons of value and many
companies sees it as the new oil. And the AWS Snowmobile is
now the 2020 type of oil truck.
Besides
recommendations, predictions and better user experience on
websites, Big Data is also useful for advertising, where
companies can process users' data and show them targeted
advertisements. Other industries that will have an advantage
of Big Data is IoT (Internet of Things).
With
millions of smart devices in industries, cities, homes and
roads – data is and will be collected. Everything to keep
the devices smart and increase the predictions for different
services, solutions and products.