Big Data is really about data from different sources, including social networks and even cell phones, analyst says. IBM’s recent $1.7 billion acquisition of Netezza, Teradata is buying data warehousing startup Aster Data Systems. Companies such as Echo and Cloudera are seeking their niche in the Big Data and social network data spaces. Big Data also carries with it risks for anyone opening up about themselves on the Internet and raises questions about who exactly owns all this data. “You have a real problem deleting anything from the Internet,” Mozilla’s Christian Heilmann says.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2127423/big-data-mining–who-owns-your-social-network-data-.html