In her opening keynote at the Intel Analytics Summit, which was mostly about machine learning, Intel's executive vice president Diane Bryant said that we are now "reaching a tipping point where data is the game changer." With the rapid growth of machine-to-machine data exchange we should expect more, according to Bryant: Autonomous vehicles will produce 4 terabytes of data each day, a connected plane will transmit 40 terabytes of data, and the automated, connected factory will generate one petabyte (one million gigabytes) daily. Another presenter, CB Bohn, Senior Database Engineer at Etsy, the online marketplace, speculated that the tipping point has already happened--when the value of the data exceeded the cost of its storage. Historical data has lots of value left in it, so "why throw it away?" Cheap storage, added Debora Donato, Director of R&D at Mix Tech, a content discovery platform, has changed the attitudes of businesses towards data and what they can do with it.

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