Ignoring the Cloud Costs Money, Ignoring Big Data Could Cost You Your Business

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: Ashish Thusoo.

Data silos days are numbered. Businesses that organize around products or business functions and not data will disappear. The development and adoption of service oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing created a steady stream of incentives to abandon data silos. However, data inertia — the difficulties of easily giving access or moving data — and organizational structures have posed significant stumbling blocks in exploiting them fully and organizing businesses around data at the same time.

A Turning Point

We are at a turning point with big data. SOA and cloud computing were about efficiencies — which could be ignored — big data is a strategic shift and will transform businesses in a way that adopters will supersede the stragglers. Businesses, especially large ones, have long been trying to break down the silos of data storage and computing…

It is a truism that replicating data storage and processing across an organization is inefficient and obstructs insight. SOA and cloud computing emerged as potential solutions to address these problems by migrating data and processes from departments to shared infrastructures…

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