Facebook uses Hadoop to manage 400 terabytes of stored data and ingest 15 terabytes of new data per day.

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What do customers get when they ingest their machine data and analyze it?

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The most fun part about the conference, to me, was to see all these new cool use cases popping up, where our customers are innovating and starting to ingest device-generated data and do analysis on it.

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For example during the ingest phase, the Big Data solution should be capable of gulping massive volumes of data at high velocity.

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Not surprisingly, businesses continue to grapple with how to ingest, understand, and operationalize Big Data.

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Being able to ingest and analyze large quantities of big data is essential to discovering these kinds of anomalies, because there are so many different sources of information that could be attached to customer behavior.

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