How Data Centers Deal with Big Data

October 3, 2012 | Big data can mean big traffic jams and throughput is increasingly becoming a concern for data centers. According to a recent survey, the biggest bottleneck is network I/O--70% of respondents said that improving I/O performance in their data centers is a "high" or "very high" priority. Other concerns include increasing bandwidth demand thanks to the cloud, big storage requirements, and virtualization. eWeek