The amount of data is growing at such an explosive rate that we have gone past the ordinary decimal system. Today, American organisations like NSA and FBI are talking about Yottabytes regarding the information they have of citizens. In the (near) future we will talk about BrontoBytes regarding sensory data.

Therefore, new terms have been defined for the upcoming data flood that is expected in the next five years:

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About Mark van Rijmenam

He is the founder of the number one big data knowledge platform BigData-Startups.com. He is an entrepreneur, public speaker and big data strategist. Mark van Rijmenam also advises organisations on developing their big data strategy.

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