Behold the ever expanding rings of big data, tech’s most overhyped sector. I say overhyped, yet demand is fierce for software, hardware and consulting services that help companies process and store giant streams of varied and frequently changing information. According to research collective Wikibon, big data is an $18 billion market on its way to $50 billion in five years.
We used Wikibon data to produce this infographic showing how companies are distributed within the big data sectors, with each company sized according to what percentage of its revenue is derived from big data. Got a problem with the methodology? The comment box is below. In general, the names in the inner circle are purer plays with the newest science, and are likely to get gobbled up by the growth-hungry incumbents on the outside. Interesting to see that IBM, for all its talk about data and smarter planets, only gets 1% of its revenue from the trend.
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