Building on cloud computing to provide Big Data services, the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, members have approved the first ITU standard on Big Data.
Big Data is a paradigm for enabling the collection, storage, management, analysis and visualization, potentially under real-time constraints, of extensive datasets with heterogeneous characteristics.
The international standard details the requirements, capabilities and use cases of cloud-based Big Data as well a high-level ‘system context’ view and its relationships with other entities.
The Big Data paradigm provides an effective, scalable solution to deal with growing volumes of data and uncover patterns or other information capable of making data manageable and profitable.
“New frontiers in ICT innovation are coming within reach thanks to advances in data collection and analysis,” the ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao, said, adding that, “The ICT industry will welcome these advances and ensure that their benefits can be achieved on a global scale.”
Also speaking, Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau said that, “This new ITU standard provides internationally agreed fundamentals of cloud-based Big Data,” said. “It will build cohesion in the terminology used to describe cloud-based Big Data and offer a common basis for the development of Big Data services and supporting technical standards.”
The ITU-T Y.3600 describes the meaning of Big Data and the characteristics of the Big Data ecosystem from a standardization perspective.
The standard outlines how cloud computing systems can be leveraged to provide Big Data services, assisting industry in the management of large datasets incapable of being transferred and analysed using traditional data-management technologies.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Emeka Aginam
Quelle/Source: Vanguard, 27.12.2015
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