AWS big data shops turn cloud infrastructure into insights
June 23, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.
Whether it’s human genome data or restaurant recommendations, the world is inundated with data, and huge swaths of that information have entered the public cloud through AWS big data customers. Business intelligence and data analytics are among the most popular uses for cloud computing, according to a survey conducted by TechTarget last fall. Out of 456 total respondents, 36.2% said they use the cloud for these workloads.
Big companies choose to put big data into Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) cloud because massive machine resources from compute to networking and storage are instantly available, and its many data centers worldwide offer a place for collaborators — from researchers to programmers and data scientists — to meet…
The term "big data" obviously refers to large volumes of data, which are also defined by their velocity. The high-speed data comes in to be analyzed as well as the real-time nature of the processing done to analyze it — and the variety of data sources involved…
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