Cloud boosts big data analytics

Grazed from ITWeb. Author: Admire Moyo.

Cloud computing supports the iterative nature of big data analytics and allows data practitioners to focus on the data itself and how to really derive value from it. So says Willem Conradie, BI consultant at PBT Group, who notes that, among other things, Cloud computing allows for on demand analysis.

He explains that data of any type can be loaded into the cloud, analysed as needed, and when complete, the cluster can be stopped and discarded, or additional data and capacity can be added depending on the outcome of the analysis. However, he points out that if it so happens that an organisation has more technical specific requirements around its analysis, meaning that its computations will be memory intensive, the cluster can be provisioned accordingly…

According to Conradie, making use of cloud computing lowers the cost of entry, especially when it comes to big data analytics…

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