Big Data Storms the Cloud

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Editorial Staff.

It’s a perfect fit and it isn’t a new trend, but Big Data’s migration to the cloud seems to be accelerating recently. The advantage of running your Big Data analytics in the cloud rather than on-premises — especially for smaller companies with constrained resources — are numerous and well-known. Oracle Corp. summed up some of the major business drivers in an article titled "Trends in Cloud Computing: Big Data’s New Home":

• Cost reduction
• Reduced overhead
• Rapid provisioning/time to market
• Flexibility/scalability…

"Cloud computing provides enterprises cost-effective, flexible access to Big Data’s enormous magnitudes of information," Oracle stated. "Big Data on the cloud generates vast amounts of on-demand computing resources that comprehend best practice analytics. Both technologies will continue to evolve and congregate in the future." In fact, they will evolve to the tune of a $69 billion private cloud storage market by 2018, predicted Technology Business Research. That’s why the Big Data migration to the cloud is picking up pace recently — everybody wants a piece of the multi-billion-dollar pie…

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