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The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.