Cloud Computing Becomes A Home For Data Analytics

Analytics — with its massive quantities of data requiring plenty of processing juice and storage space — is a natural fit for the cloud. Organizations are still dipping their toes into the possibilities, but this is about to accelerate dramatically.

 

That’s the takeaway from a recent survey conducted by IDG and published by Informatica of the 200 IT and business decision makers in the survey say they have deployed one or more cloud analytics solutions. This may be growing over the months and years to come, with 68% of respondents saying they intend to investigate, analyze or actively plan to deploy cloud analytics solutions over the coming year. In addition, 74% said they expect to adopt a hybrid or cloud-only approach to analytics over the next three years…

 

Just as cloud has simply become “computing,” so will cloud-borne analytics simply be the way things are done. Vince Dell ’Anno, managing director of Accenture Analytics, recently shared his observations with me on cloud, observing that “the private and public cloud have become part of the enterprise IT fabric.” He adds that he has seen “increased enterprise activity in the movement of data and analytics capabilities to the cloud to increase ROI, agility and pace of innovation.” Cloud analytics offer a “faster route to insight-driven decision-making and business outcomes.”…

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