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With the rise of cloud computing, Steve Chang, chairman of Trend Micro forecasts that big data solutions and services will become a lucrative high-tech trend in the near future.

At the Hadoop in Taiwan 2012 forum jointly held earlier by his company and National Center for High-performance Computing, Chang said that if an energy war had been fought over the past two centuries, big data solutions and services can be seen as a new oil supply to lead future development of the global high-tech industry.

Chang furthered that big data solution turns tremendous amounts of unstructured data into useful information through parallel computing for defined characteristics and then systematic analysis, which is regarded as a big deal among high-tech firms worldwide.

The recommendation system utilized by Amazon on its online bookshop one application of big data solutions, which offers lists of books that may interest users due to data computing and analysis to help drive sales.

Chang revealed that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., world’s largest semiconductor foundry, has also consulted Trend Micro to apply big data from the company to turn internal data collected in production and R&D processes into useful information.

Trend Micro has been engaged in research of big data to solve Internet virus problems for six years as the pioneer among high-tech firms in Greater China. With big data becoming a buzzword in foreign high-tech industries, Chang said his company is expected to complete 100 cumulative cases of big-data consultancy in 2013.