The state of big data in 2014 (chart) | VentureBeat | Business | by Matt Turck, FirstMark Capital

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"Hype, meet reality: A few years into a period of incredible hype, is big data still a thing? While big data is becoming less press worthy, the next couple of years are going to be hugely important for this market, as corporations start moving projects from experimentation to full production. While those deployments will lead to rapidly increasing revenues for some big data vendors, they will also test whether big data can truly deliver on its promise. Meanwhile, the fundamental need for big data technology keeps increasing as the deluge of data keeps accelerating, powered in part by the rapidly emerging Internet-of-things industry."

The state of big data in 2014 (chart) | VentureBeat | Business | by Matt Turck, FirstMark Capital