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In Cloud Atlas

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Carter explains why flexibility and responsiveness are now even more crucial to success-and why services-based strategies offer the greatest promise for achieving them

Big Data Gordon and the inspiration for aIn the age of big data, we can crunch an incomprehensible amount of information, providing invaluable insights we wouldn't otherwise have. We're just starting to reap the benefits: tracking vital signs to foresee infections, predicting building fires, anticipating the best moment to buy a plane ticket, seeing inflation in real time and monitoring social media in order to identify trends. But there is a dark side to big data. Will it be machines,