8 Astonishing Big Data Deployments


Bangalore: The Big Data trend is growing at an overwhelming rate and so is the amount of data. It has been estimated that data doubles itself in a short period of 18 months, which is pretty steep. There are varied perceptions about this emerging trends that includes the pros and cons it brings along with itself. But while people still ‘discussing’ big data, there are people who are already implementing and handling it. As compiled by cio.com, here are 8 real world deployments of big data:

8. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service

NOAA has been handling big data ever since the world heard about it for the first time. It has been doing it for the past 50 years and at present it manages a whopping total of 30 petabytes of new data every year. NOAA’s operations include collecting nearly 3.5 billion observations on a daily basis coming from satellites, ships, aircrafts, buoys and other different sensors deployed all across the globe. NOAA uses this massive amount of data to provide the National Weather Services (NWS) that generates weather warnings, predictions, guidance etc to several public and private forecasters.

7. AM Biotechnologies DNA Sequence Analysis Solution

AM Biotechnologies, a Houston based firm works on developing Aptamers. These aptamers are used for the purpose of diagnostic quantification in a blood sample to targeted delivery of drugs to the specific sites to the body. Developing such complex aptamers require billions of short DNA sequence to be analyzed and AM Biotechnologies uses a web based big data analysis tools from CD-HIT and Galaxy for the purpose.

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