Thank the cloud for making big data and IoT possible

Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: David Linthicum.

I’ve sworn it off: No longer do I remind people younger than myself that many of today’s concepts we call new and innovative are based on much older concepts popular a long time ago — when I was young. The ones that immediately come to mind are big data and Internet of things (IoT).

Big data — at least the notion of it — was always the objective in the world of database technology. However, back in the days when I was a college professor who taught database technology, it was simply a cool concept. The hardware and software that could provide analytics across petabytes of data simply did not exist…


Although we dreamed of having the horsepower to see most of the enterprise’s data and analyze that data with subsecond response times, we knew it was out of the question. That sort of data manipulation could sometimes take weeks…

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