The world is becoming digitized. We store exabytes of new data every day and by 2020 humans will be storing five terabytes of data per person on the planet. Every document, transaction, photograph, movie, game, genome, seismic sounding, and scientific experiment will be digital, and most will remain stored in some form forever. The world needs to be able to discard worthless data, store valuable data, and have the intelligence to understand which is which.
manage and curate its data