Cloud and Big Data, Together: A Huge Springboard to Innovation

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.

This sentiment was recently expressed in an interview with Motley Fool analyst Tim Byers, who analyzed the zeitgeist coming out of the South-by-Southwest (SXSW) conference and observed that cloud computing and big data were now one in the same phenomena, converging on enterprises of all shapes and sizes.

Byers may have meant that the level of industry interest and innovation in big data parallels that seen in the cloud computing space in recent years. But in many ways, the two are becoming one in the same — cloud resources are needed to support big data storage and projects, and big data is a huge business case for moving to cloud. The innovations and buzz around big data and cloud at SXSW represent a “tipping point,” Byers relates, as it is now apparent that both cloud and big data are huge springboards to innovation…

Tech-cultural confabs such as SXSW are not the only place where the convergence is being discussed. The potential these two converging forces was not lost on a more button-down affair, a recent workshop sponsored by the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)…

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