ITU members agree international standard for Big Data
Building on cloud computing to provide Big Data services
Geneva, 18 December
2015 – ITU 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. 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.
“New frontiers in ICT innovation are coming
within reach thanks to advances in data collection and analysis,” said ITU
Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. “The ICT industry will welcome these advances and
ensure that their benefits can be achieved on a global scale.”
“This new ITU standard provides internationally agreed
fundamentals of cloud-based Big Data,” said Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau. “It will build cohesion in the
terminology used to describe cloud-based Big Data and offer a common basis for
the development of Big Data services and supporting technical standards.”
ITU-T Y.3600 describes the meaning of Big Data and the
characteristics of the Big Data ecosystem from a standardization perspective.
The standard outlines how cloud computing systems can be leveraged to provide
Big Data services, assisting industry in the management of large datasets
incapable of being transferred and analysed using traditional data-management
technologies.
In addition to its description of the fundamentals of
cloud-based Big Data, ITU-T Y.3600 provides definitions of Big Data and Big Data
as a Service (BDaaS):
Big Data is a paradigm for enabling the
collection, storage, management, analysis and visualization, potentially under
real-time constraints, of extensive datasets with heterogeneous characteristics.
BDaaS is a cloud service category in
which the capabilities provided to the cloud service customer are the ability to
collect, store, analyse, visualize and manage data using Big Data technologies.
For more information,
please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations & Public Information
ITU
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