InfluxData's Video Series discusses dealing with large amounts of data, a growing challenge as companies collect more data from devices and endpoints. A time series database is considered a solution to help ingest and analyze this data at speed. According to InfluxData VP of Products Tim Hall, the vast majority of existing data systems are not set up to handle this scale of data ingestion. The video provides insights into how a time series database can address these challenges and enable faster analysis of large datasets.