Experts have suggested that the way large corporations respond to the era of big data could be a deciding factor in their success moving forward. To ensure sustainable operations and profitable growth, having the correct base of technological building blocks will be essential.
"Content growth is everywhere," explained industry executive Eric Barroca in a recent guest column for TechNewsWorld. "From traditional data warehouses to new consolidated big data stores, IT infrastructure must be ready for this continuing scale; it impacts the entire IT industry, especially enterprise content management."
In fact, EMC analysts previously predicted that enterprises could be managing as much as 50 times more data by the end of the decade than they did last year.
In response to this trend, Barroca suggested that the marketplace is headed toward a platform-based approach to content management that enables users to create and deploy the kinds of applications that are most valuable to their unique objectives. The rise of NoSQL databases and other non-relational frameworks logically support this process.
However, Barroca suggests that completely eliminating reliance on relational databases could put platforms on shaky ground. Instead, the preferred approach may be viewing flexible architectures and developer-friendly utilities as an evolution in content management rather than a revolution that necessitates a complete overhaul.
