"The bigger the data means the greater the security of managing big data."

BanSeng Teh, senior vice president of global at Seagate, said at the big data debate at COEX in Seoul, Korea on August 17, emphasizing the importance of big data security.

"As data explosion increases the number of things and people connected through the Internet, security will become more important. Security is a key issue in smart city development, even if it is not a terror or security issue." BanSeng Teh stated.

The reason why he emphasized this is due to critical data, which is directly related to human life, is greatly increased among the data of various game machines during the 4th industrial revolution such as artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous vehicle. Critical data refers to basic life data such as heart rate close to human life, and data directly linked to life such as data generated by an unmanned automobile.

According to IDC`s "Data Age 2025" white paper by Seagate, by 2025, worldwide data volume is expected to reach 163 trillion GB. This is 10 times of the current data amount. It is estimated that it will grow to the annual average 30% level in the future. Among them, the critical data growth rate is expected to be 34%, which is 4% higher than the overall data growth rate.

Mr. Teh also said, "The speed at which core information grows is much faster than the overall data growth."

Seagate predicts that 20% of the data generated will be critical data in 2025. "When we track data related to airplanes, we cannot make the right decisions and use the wrong data, which can lead to accidents.” Said Mr. Teh. "The 20% figure is significant." In spite of this situation, Mr. Teh pointed out that the security technology applied to the whole data is less than 50%.

Meanwhile, there is a diagnosis that the edge device (device) plays an important role as the data increases. Edge Computing is a small server that is closest to various IoT sensors, and it manages various sensor data.

"It`s important to be able to add a variety of predictive analysis algorithms to the Edge device, which is a server that helps you make real-time decisions by collecting, storing and analyzing sensor data," said Mr. Kim Eue-mahn, SAP director.

"For critical data protection, the importance of Edge devices helping to make informed decisions after gathering information will increase," Mr. Teh said. He was especially impressed by the prospect of global hardware (HW) manufacturers going down in the cloud era.

"The age of global vendors such as HPE, Dell EMC and HDS will be over in the cloud era," he said. "With the increasing number of white-boxed storage, it`s going to be customer driven, not vendor driven."

White box means a manufacturer and a terminal without a seller`s trademark. The market is growing rapidly as it is cheaper than existing products and can be upgraded by customers themselves. He also said, "Because of cost and efficiency, more than 90 % of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are moving to the cloud. The cloud is efficient in terms of maintenance."

By Lim Seong-yeob starleaf@



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