Chapter 5
Centralizing Data
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
—Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Data is the foundation of everything we do in IT. According to his 2018 Forbes article, “The Mind-Blowing Stats Everyone Should Read,” Bernard Marr states there are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, a pace that is accelerating with IoT growth. Marr provides lots of statistics to support that massive number, a few examples of which are that (as of May 2018) Google processes 3.5 billion searches every day, and that every minute people send 16 million text messages and 156 million emails, Snapchat users share almost 600,000 photos, and Tinder users swipe almost 1 million times. You are probably thinking, “People ...
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