Cloud service providers unveil product plans for the coming year

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

Big data will get even bigger, cloud performance monitoring will be a top priority, and cloud computing pros should beware of further government regulation in 2013, according to the heads of three cloud computing service providers. While it’s been a hot topic in 2012, big data still hasn’t fully hit its stride outside of startups and early adopters. But more vendors will come out of the woodwork to address this growing trend.

Companies including Austin, Texas-based hosting and cloud service provider Rackspace Inc. will do this in 2013 by wrapping products and services around open source tools such as Hadoop, according to John Engates, CTO of Rackspace…

Ultimately, this also means cloud computing service providers will need to ingest more of their customers’ data to make big data analytics viable in the cloud. "It has to be offered in conjunction with other cloud services that enable the business across the board, or else it’s going to be done on-premises, where the data already is," Engates said…

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