Ten seconds after I stepped into the roar of the data centre at the UK Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in rural Cambridgeshire, my video camera croaked: CARD FULL. Impossible. That morning, I’d tossed a handful of thumbnail-sized 32-GB memory cards into my pocket, each one good for a couple of hours’ worth of high-definition video. Yet this one had filled up in seconds.
Big Data: Welcome to the Petacentre
September 3, 2008