Datapipe Acquires GoGrid Cloud for Big Data Apps
January 22, 2015
Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Mike Vizard.
While interest in all things Big Data is clearly high, the ability of most organizations to actually manage it is severely limited. With that issue in mind Datapipe announced that the MSP is acquiring GoGrid, a provider of a cloud services that automates the deployment of Big Data applications. Craig Sowell, chief marketing officer for Datapipe, said that ability to test Big Data applications and then deploy them with a single click across multiple cloud computing platforms was the primary reason Datapipe made the acquisition.
Big data and the cloud
Going forward, Sowell said Datapipe anticipates that demand for Big Data applications in the cloud will grow significantly; primarily because the laws of data gravity generally result in applications being deployed as close as possible to their primary sources of data. Given the relatively low cost of storing large amounts of data in the cloud, the weight of all that data is pulling more applications into the cloud, said Sowell…
The opportunity for Datapipe, said Sowell, is that most IT organizations don’t have the data management skills required to manage either that volume of data at scale or the NoSQL platforms that are most often used to store it…
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