Cloud Computing: Transforming Raw Data Into Meaningful Useful Information
June 17, 2014
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Mojgan Afshari.
Advanced multimedia devices, social media services, sensor networks, and corporate information systems create continuously huge amounts of structured and unstructured data which are called big data. Transforming collected masses of raw data into meaningful and useful information is important for organizations. This knowledge helps managers to make smarter decisions and improve organization’s performance.
The four dimensions of big data (volume, velocity, variety and value) present challenges to businesses such as how to store and manage data, how to effectively analyse data and gain value from big data. Recently, cloud computing has been recognized as a useful technology in handling big data for many of the organizations…
“ Cloud Computing platforms provide easy access to a company’s high-performance computing and storage infrastructure through web services”. The driving forces behind cloud computing are: lower infrastructure and software costs, reliability, availability, compatibility, scalability, elasticity, risk reduction, high performance and specifiable configurability. These features make cloud computing a ubiquitous paradigm for deploying novel applications which were not economically feasible in a traditional enterprise infrastructure setting…
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