The Intersection Of Big Data And Cloud
July 30, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Edward Newman.
One of the things we can expect to see a lot more of in the future is the concept of Big Data for Infrastructure. By that I mean the intersection of cloud infrastructure and cloud services and Big Data capability and functionality. Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for environments to have over 1000 virtual machines.
Going forward, it’s going to be increasingly more important to having a solid understanding of the performance, functionality and capacity of the resources that are deployed in our data centers. We will need to figure out how to characterize these resources, both for data centers we own as well as those in public clouds that the business is interested in…
In my opinion, this is a Big Data problem, as there exists a multitude of challenges associated with what is running in each environment, how it is running, how much a business can consume, etc. In addition, we will need a lot more integration into the actual infrastructure itself to report on what’s happening within the extended cloud environment…
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