The flood of data will affect small and midsize businesses (SMBs), even if their data volume may not be as sizeable as larger enterprises, due to legacy tools which were not built to support large volumes of data.
In a phone interview with ZDNet Asia, Alvin Goh, senior manager for system engineering and professional services at NetApp, described big data as the phenomenon in which the size of data volume has grown beyond the ability of current tools to effectively capture, store, manage and analyze the datasets. [source]
