"If we do it and do it right, there are 100 other people who will copy our data and use it in interesting ways, " Malamud says.

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Unstructured data is interesting and contains information we want to report on and want to integrate with other (structured) data.

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Other interesting statistics from a recent Symantec study suggests that businesses are storing 2.2 Zettabytes of information and that data creation doubles every two years with one gigabyte of stored data creating a petabyte of transient data.

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