Data Deluge: Businesses Struggle With TMI

The cloud helped open the floodgates on data collection. Now, IT departments are racing to make it usable for AI. ‘In some instances, it is overwhelming,’ one CIO says of the sheer amount of data

According to a global survey by Salesforce last year, 33% of business leaders said they can’t generate meaningful insights from their data and 30% said they were overwhelmed by the volume.Photo: Jason Henry for The Wall Street Journal

Companies are hoovering up more data than ever before, with the goal of leveraging it for insights and efficiency. But in many cases, the amount of data is leaving them lost—drowning in a sea of terabytes they don’t know how to make sense of.

“In some instances, it is overwhelming,” said Sam Jaddi, chief information officer for security company ADT Inc. The company collects three to four terabytes of data everyday—“a significant amount of data to sift through,” he added. 

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