ITU agrees on 1st int'l standard for big data

GENEVA, Dec 18 (KUNA) -- The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Friday announced that its members have approved the first ITU standard on Big Data.
"The international standard details the requirements, capabilities and use cases of cloud-based Big Data as well a high-level 'system context' view and its relationships with other entities", said the ITU in a press release from its headquarters in Geneva.
The Big Data paradigm provides an effective, scalable solution to deal with growing volumes of data and uncover patterns or other information capable of making data manageable and profitable.
Advances in information and communication technology (ICT) are enabling masses of data to be generated, transmitted and stored, and this explosive growth is increasing in pace. Datasets have become so large and complex, and are generated so fast, that traditional approaches to data processing are proving inadequate. Achieving efficient analysis of data within required timeframes is a significant challenge, one that industry will address using technologies in the field of Big Data.
The new standard, Recommendation ITU-T Y.3600 "Big data - cloud computing based requirements and capabilities", was developed by ITU-T's expert group responsible for future networks, cloud computing and network aspects of mobile communications, ITU-T Study Group 13. (end) ta.gta