In 2013, the big data market was valued at $14.87 billion. The report suggests the big data market will experience such growth partly due to the proliferation of digital data from almost all business sectors, as well as the growing need to store, process and analyze data.
The report mentions IBM, Oracle, HP, Microsoft and EMC as dominant market players.
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