Analytics and data science will define the next decade as several trends converge to create new opportunities. These trends include flash storage replacing disk drives, everything moving to the cloud, and declining costs of RAM and computing power. Anyone can now access huge computing clusters with a credit card. While the web democratized publishing, democratizing analytics and insights could have even more profound effects.

1. Analytics and Data Science: the breaking wave November 2011

2. Analytics and Data Science: the breaking wave A number of megatrends Flash SSD replacing disk Cloud for everything RAM and compute prices crater converging to create entirely new opportunities for governments, businesses and citizens. Anyone with a credit card now has access to huge compute clusters The web has already democratised publishing at scale, but democratising analytics and insight could have more profound effects. analytics will define the next 10 years

4. The Trends

5. Fragmentation

6. Source: John C. McCallum

7. Flash Trumps Disc EMC Project Lightning IBM Workload Optimised Systems, GPFS Oracle Exadata, Solaris 11 ZFS NetApp Project Mercury SAP Hana (T-Rex came first)

9. Cloud is eating the World

10. When Web Companies Grow Up

11. Relentless @stoweboyd: Today’s basic Kindle costs 80% less, weighs 40% less, 2/3 less space and holds 7X as many books as the original

12. The Insights

15. The Players

16. NoSQL

17. Big Data by the hour Amazon Elastic MapReduce

18. A New Kind of Data “Store”

19. Hadoop at Facebook http://hadoopblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebook-has-worlds-largest-hadoop.html