Analyst firm IDC have made a prediction that companies will increasingly struggle to manage Big Data.

The prediction comes as firms are faced with increasing stretched budgets combined with higher consumption.

The report commissioned by EMC predicted a near doubling of the ‘digital universe’ every two years, and that investment in storage and analysis will increase by 40 percent from 2012 to 2020.

The report predicted that: “by 2020, a third of the data in the digital universe (more than 13,000 exabytes) will have big data value, but only if it is tagged and analysed".