*Storage Newsletter* reports that, according to a Syncsort study of more that 350 IT and business users in North America, traditional data integration tools simply aren’t up to the task of dealing with Big Data.

>Growing data volumes and shrinking processing windows pose significant challenges to more than 70 percent of the professionals surveyed. More concerning, is that 68 percent of those surveyed point to data integration tools as impeding the organization’s ability to achieve strategic business objectives.

Costs, tuning requirements, and report generation times that lag from weeks to more than a month.

>Nearly 65 percent of respondents estimate that their organization’s data volumes have grown by more than 50 percent in the past 2 years.

In the age of Big Data, how is your organization struggling with Data Integration? Have you tried [modern solutions](https://www.sandtechnology.com/analytics/load-update-store/)?

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