In a different, though parallel, category, Allianz Group Chief Information Officer Ralf Schneider suggests 2012 will see strides in "in-memory data management, " which will pave the way for real-time enterprise computing.
Banks which have invested in real-time risk management for pre-trade risk find that they have islands of sophisticated risk controls but not a good enterprise view.
The first successful big data technology was enterprise data warehouses that implement massively parallel processing, scale to the petabytes, handle batch and real-time latencies with equal agility, and provide connectors to structured and unstructured sources.