Who are the organizations most likely to be early adopters?
Strange: Retail should be right there; they were early adopters and sometimes very successful as we moved into enterprise applications. Financial institutions are another natural fit. Conglomerates like Citigroup will want to look across all their lines of business, and that’s another significant driver. With insurance, traditional banking and brokerage houses all under one roof, there’s a tremendous appetite for capturing and analyzing massive amounts of customer information. TechTarget: When do we actually see the applications themselves arriving? Strange: We’re talking 5-10 years out. The challenge you have here in the arrival of these technologies is that the vendors typically have their marketing hype 3-4 years ahead of the reality. MORE INFORMATION ON THIS TOPIC: SearchDatabase Best Web Links on VLDB. Expert definition of a petabyte. _____________________________________ SPONSORED BY: EMC _____________________________________ Open Storage Management with AutoIS AutoIS is EMC’s st
