Big Data, Bigger Challenges

See the latest entry: The 10 Hottest Big Data Tools of 2022

The global COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t slowed the exponential growth of data: IDC recently calculated that 64.2 zettabytes of data was created, consumed and stored globally in 2020. And the market researcher forecasts that global data creation and replication will experience a 23 percent CAGR between 2020 and 2025.

The good news is that innovative IT vendors, both established companies and startups, continue to develop next-generation tools for a range of big data management tasks including data observability, data governance, metadata management and data quality management. And there are tools for connecting data sources scattered across hybrid and multi-cloud IT systems—critical for managing distributed analytical and operational big data workloads.

Here’s a look at some cool big data tools that caught our attention in 2021.

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