When IT deals with big data, the primary arena for it is… large servers that are parallel processing in a Hadoop environment.
Thankfully for the company at large, IT also focuses on reliability, security, governance, failover, and performance of data and apps—because if it didn’t, there would be nobody else internally to do the job that is required.
Within this environment, IT’s job is most heavily focused on the structured transactions that come in daily from order, manufacturing, purchasing, service, and administrative systems that keep the enterprise running.
