Industry Sector Analysis of Big Data Harvesting

"‘Big data’ refers to sets of data whose size surpasses that of what data storage tools can typically handle. As the amount of digital data grows exponentially each year, big data has the potential to become the next frontier for innovation, competition and profit," writes Andy Wibbels in Infographic: The Potential of Big Data as a lead-in to his Exploding Data: The Potential of Big Data infographic. Hat tip to Klint Kinley's ReadWriteCloud post. (The Big Data infographic tries to put Big Data into perspective by "look[ing] at how much data is harvested by different industries, and how much that data may be worth. For example, did you know that the average securities and investment firm with fewer than 1,000 employees will have 3.8 petabytes of data stored?") [JH]