Data centres without walls – where Cloud and Big Data meets

Grazed from Business Cloud9. Author: Mervyn Kelly.

Big Data is gradually becoming the next big trend in the ICT world. While it is still only nascent and many of its technical specifications are yet to emerge, one can already imagine the numerous ways in which the huge sets of largely unstructured data that exist today and will be created in the future can be used to our advantage.

In fact, the application of Big Data technologies is likely to become pertinent in every aspect of our daily lives; retail, healthcare, transport – all of these will benefit from the ability to better understand all the myriad transactions and interactions consumers have with technology throughout the day…

One other big trend in the ICT world – Cloud Computing – is clearly emerging as a major enabler of Big Data. The sheer quantities of data involved mean that the distributed computing model will be essential to take advantage of it, as the immense compute power necessary to make use of the resource is only likely to reside in large data centres, which not many businesses are comfortable owning as part of their IT infrastructure…

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