Can the Cloud Handle Enterprise Big Data? New Data Center Tech Expands Horizons
February 13, 2014
Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Katelyn Roberts.
Enterprises have loved data for years, but technology is bringing big data to the forefront for many small to mid-sized businesses in recent years. Thanks to the “as-a-Service” model, businesses can take full advantage of data center technology at a fraction of the cost of building their own data centers. Cloud computing relies on a data center infrastructure to function. But interestingly, it’s cloud computing technology that’s paving the way for the data centers of the future – which will be more flexible, more efficient, and more dynamic than ever.
The Cloud Relies on Infrastructure
Cloud computing is an abstract concept even to many businesses that utilize it. Cloud services, such as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), still rely on the same hardware and servers that power any standard data center. The difference is that the storage, servers and networking of multiple systems are pooled and the resources shared among multiple applications or organizations. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are variations on this model with different levels of control and operational responsibility between the consumer and the provider…
The pooled resources are accessed over the Internet. But one of the most important and distinctive features of the cloud is its flexibility. Because resources are pooled and shared, they’re also scalable and can be adjusted to accommodate workloads of variable sizes. That means an enterprise can easily access more resources in a fraction of the time it would take to rebuild an on-site data center infrastructure…