There’s a perfect storm coming our way. Data is being generated at a faster pace than we’ve ever seen before. There are nearly 7 billion Google searches that take place every day, and WhatsApp users exchange up to 65 billion messages. Everything is collecting data — smart cities, smart cars, and even smart doorbells. All of these devices and sensors require processing and analysis to make them useful. When data sits unused it costs businesses between $9.7 million and $14.2 million annually.
This data explosion continues to provide challenges for the enterprise. Data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are all rapidly becoming intertwined. AI is fed by data, and making sense of data requires AI. Gartner research predicts 75% of enterprise-generated data will be "created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud" by 2025.