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Like cloud computing, big data has long promised to improve the state of data centers, and enterprises are beginning to seriously warm to the technology. But also like the cloud, big data has unique security concerns, which should be top of mind for the enterprise to ensure the safety of data, according to a recent survey by SANS Institute.
The survey—sponsored by Cloudera and written by Barbara Filkins, SANS senior analyst and healthcare IT specialist—polled 206 organizations about their plans for big data, and found that the majority of them either already had big data systems in place or would implement them in the short term.
Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed said they had big data applications in development; 27 percent said they have big data applications in production; and 28 percent plan big data applications in the next two years.
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