In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged,Floris Grandvarlet(Cisco) andRichard Pilling(Intel) take on Big Data across the proverbial pond, at Cisco Live Milan. Where are we now, how are we going to approach the ever increasing amount of data (an ocean of it) to fish for information? This is a great overview for the challenges and the evolution of approaches.

Let's watch and see what they propose to address the challenges:

It's our very first seahorse-outsmarted once more.

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