Big data is a major topic these days and one of the four pillars of what IDC calls the 3rd platform. The combination of big data, cloud, mobility, and social technologies is transforming the IT landscape, as organizations move beyond client/server computing.
Some big data technologies have existed for years in high-performance computing (HPC). Today, however, burgeoning technologies are being put to use well outside the rarified domain of HPC, and are in fact being interwoven into the very fabric of enterprise computing.
There's been plenty of debate about the role of enterprise content management (ECM) in conjunction with big data. ECM systems aren't — in and of themselves — big data applications by IDC's definition. However, ECM has an important role to play.
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