Big data will continue to provide benefits and...
Big data will continue to provide benefits and challenges for municipalities, according to a MeriTalk survey taken last fall of 150 state and local information technology professionals (http://bit.ly/154R5CH). NetApp, a seller of storage systems and storage security systems, underwrote the…
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study, which was released Monday. The officials described tremendous big data growth on the horizon. “Today, the average state and local agency stores 499 terabytes of data,” the report said. It said 87 percent of state and local agencies believe this size has grown in the last two years and 97 percent expect it to increase over the coming two years. Fifty-seven percent of respondents believe big data improves agencies’ overall efficiency, 54 percent that it aids in the speed and accuracy of decisions and 37 percent in improving the understanding of citizens. The report said many don’t understand or are in the initial stages of understanding how to use big data. It said 44 percent aren’t talking about it and 39 percent are just learning. There’s a margin of error of plus or minus 7.97 percent in the survey, MeriTalk said. Most stored data comes from transactional business data, field staff and from other agency reports, respondents said. Problems include storage capacity and the question of who owns the data, the report said.