With the growing number of blogs, websites, social networking sites and general online search queries – enterprises, as well as individuals, are dealing with a huge amount of sensitive data on a regular basis. Therefore, big data management, though tricky, has become an integral function within an organisation; and the skills required to handle this are also looked upon carefully.
Besides the huge amount of data generation, there’s a lot of economic value that’s getting generated as well. As a result, organisations are keen to build effective skills to handle this operation. Now the question is, are these skills readily available for the enterprises?
According to experts, it’s often a challenge to locate specific skilled professionals to manage big data. “Considering that data comes in structured, semi-structured and unstructured form and in different volumes and velocity, it is important to have specific set of skills for each of these segments,” says Srinivasan Govindarajan, senior director, practice head – Enterprise Information Management System, Virtusa Corporation.