Big Data

In 2011, at the Techonomy conference in California, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt made a bold statement. “Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. That’s something like five exabytes of data, he says. Let me repeat that,” he said. “We create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003.”

Earlier this week I had the great pleasure of attending the 2014 Internet2 Global Summit in Denver.

With the theme of “Welcome to the New Era,” the well-attended conference reflected the international nature of our community’s work and the challenges we all are facing.

An OARnet colleague asked me what my top three takeaways were; I thought you might be interested as well. They are:

In Denver recently, my Ohio Supercomputer Center colleagues and I participated in SC13, the “International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,” and we celebrated the event’s 25^th conference. Organizers created a timeline display of the conference over the years, and it was very interesting to see how the conference has grown and evolved with the industry that it represents. I made some mental notes about some of what I saw this year to share with blog readers.