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Today I read Mike Barlow's short ebook entitled Will Big Data Make IT Infrastructure Sexy Again? It was probably
a forgone conclusion that his answer would be a resounding 'Yes'. His argument rested more on the Industrial Internet
or, as the goofy call it, The Internet of Things, rather than Big Data, although he did mention that the former will
undoubtedly create quite a bit of the latter. Barlow, however, did not comment on the silliness of sexy terms that the IT
world cycles through every few years. Big Data is one of those lately so it made sense to include in the title. Barlow
did know his history though and included mention of the two seminal papers published by Sanjay Ghemawat et al.
at Google that literally gave birth to the post relational database way of dealing with large datasets, namely
The Google File System
MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
Barlow's book can probably be passsed up, but if you work in Comupter Science and you haven't read these two papers stop
what you are doing right now and go read them.
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