Big data in the cloud? Be careful what you pay for
December 7, 2012
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Clark.
Big data is the latest trend to obsess the technology industry, but companies need to be careful about where they deploy its tools or they could find themselves at the sharp end of a stinging bill. Many cloud computing vendors offer big-data tools that, paired with the ability to rent scalable on-demand compute and storage resources, can provide a potent on-paper justification for analysing data in the cloud.
However, the costs and time it takes to upload large quantities of data into and out of a cloud could mean that businesses that crunch datasets could be hit by unforeseen costs. "Data has a lot of inertia," Charles Zedlewski, Hadoop-vendor Cloudera’s vice president of products, says. "If you run [Hadoop] in the public cloud, that application is going to spit off data. If your data is generated in the [cloud] datacentre, your Hadoop [cluster] is going to be in that datacentre."…
Hadoop is a popular open-source platform for data storage and big data analysis. It is based on technologies originally developed by Google to help the search giant store and query massive amounts of data…
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