Pure Storage has a way to drive down the cost and time to store huge quantities of data.

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They're collecting, pooling and analyzing huge quantities of data, looking for minor incidents that don't result in crashes or near misses, but potentially could.

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"Ultimately, data visualization takes huge quantities of data, boils them down, and lets the mind pull patterns out, " says Manley, spoken like a true scientist.

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InfoChimps is creating a big data cloud that is optimized to connect to corporate data centers to allow companies to plug in directly to huge quantities of data without having to move it.

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The problem of finding meaningful patterns among the huge quantities of genetic data that are provided by biochips was recently tackled by a team of researchers led by Todd Golub and Donna Slonim, of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Spanos used rigorous statistical analysis of huge quantities of customer data, for example, to reveal useful insights.

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As de Geer works towards his vision of expanding iZettle into Asia, Latin America, and Europe, he also aspires to building a way for his customers to provide them with business analytics of their huge quantities of transaction data.

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