The future of Big Data will define most industries that we know today, re-shaping business models and even rerouting the information technology course. Looking at it as a business challenge may also lead companies to monetize and create something very lucrative out of real time analytics of data, especially within the social media sphere. These interesting angles on unfathomable volumes of external and corporate information attract the decision makers of the industry titans.

Silicon Graphics International (SGI) Chief Technology Officer Dr. Eng Lim Goh, sees big data dilemma emerging from both ends of the arrow: one from high performance computing and the other from scientific instruments. “So we’ve spent years refining the process to get them faster, and linking more and more systems so they can process models faster and at higher resolutions and better fidelity. The result of this in many cases is the generation of massive amounts of data.”

BBC news has been touching base with market leaders to ask the big data questions. Being a prime innovator of the tech community, SGI gives their piece on the topic. While Dr. Eng Lim Goh admits that they don’t have the perfect solution yet, their continuous research on constructing a scale-up server to keep growing with the substantial amounts of data and be able to process these as a whole in a monolithic way.

With over a thousand employees deployed around the globe concentrating on research, biotechnology, digital media and internet and cloud, SGI is without a doubt making a mark and what its leaders have to say is becoming extremely relevant. SGI has been persistent in introducing updates to the market with recent launches that involve 256-Core Windows Server, scaling up Altix UV for Windows Server 2008 and Altix UV 1000 systems.

In addition to its solid line of services and solutions is the 5-star rating given by CRN for the second year in a row. This is a feat that places SGI in an elite circle of high-valued vendors. This might have contributed to the significant spike of SGI’s shares in the stock market, as SGI adds partners to take on industry leaders including Fision-io.