Big Data Concept

In April of 2009, IBM made available a revolutionary product named IBM InfoSphere Streams (Streams). Streams is a product architected specifically to help clients continuously analyze massive volumes of streaming data at extreme speeds to improve business insight and decision making. Based on ground-breaking work from an IBM Research team working with the U.S. Government, Streams is one of the first products designed specifically for the new business, informational, and analytical needs of the Smarter Planet Era. Overview of Streams As the amount of data available to enterprises and other organizations dramatically increases, more and more companies are looking to turn this data into actionable information and intelligence in real time. Addressing these requirements requires applications that are able to analyze potentially enormous volumes and varieties of continuous data streams to provide decision makers with critical information almost instantaneously. Streams p...