Infrastructure Engineers Prepare for Tsunami of Data from Virtual Reality, IoT

It's coming, it's really coming, and it's going to be huuuuugggge! That was the message of the tech company executives keynoting the annual Open Compute Project Summit, held this week in San Jose, Calif. They were talking about data. More data than anybody--even in an era in which 300 hours of video is posted to YouTube every minute--has yet seen. They boasted that it is leading to a far more adaptable and efficient infrastracture than would have been possible in an era of proprietary systems.