Before the military can harness data, it helps to understand exactly what kind of resource data is.
Metaphors can convert complexity into easily understandable phrases. But leading thinkers and the executors of military modernization have wrestled with the question of whether data is more like oil, ore or ice.
“Data is like ice,” said John Ferrari, chief administrative officer of QOMPLX, an analytics and insurance software company. “If you put one cube in your glass out on the summer on your patio, it’ll melt. But if you put four bags of ice cubes together around a keg it will stay cold the entire time. Being together makes it exponentially more valuable.” Read More…
