Big Data is undergoing a Big Redefinition, as the issue comes front and center in discussions about IT and Cloud Computing in 2012.

We can be sure that vendors will become experts in defining Big Data in terms that match precisely whatever they offer. Less sure is whether and how IT buyers perceive the term, and how they will use it as they make buying and deployment decisions.

So the question before us is, "What does Big Data mean to you?" I provide some options below. Retweet this or contact me directly with your answers! 

• Specialized scientific, medical, military, or economics application involving significant modeling or simulation problem and terabytes of data.

• Real-time business analytics applied to large information flows customer buying patterns, inventory control, etc. of gigabytes per day.

• Those damnable hi-res multi-megabyte PDFs that have to bypass my email server.

• I work at Google, Facebook, or another Web monster and I can't tell you what it means; you wouldn't believe it or understand it, anyway/

• I work for the NSA and can't tell you, but can tell you that I've put you into the mix, pal.

• None of the above. Dude, you don't grok my problem! Here it is...