Unlocking the potential of big data in the cloud
December 5, 2014
Grazed from Phys.org. Author: Editorial Staff.
Cloud computing and Big Data are the two top innovation hubs in ICT. Together they have the potential to become pivotal enhancers of social transformation and economic development for many years to come. Two ICT initiatives are filling technology headlines these days, promising to revolutionize computing, business practice, education and most areas of knowledge one can think of.
On the one hand, Big Data is an emerging paradigm for large scale distributed data management that aims at being able to process large amounts of data beyond the possibilities of traditional database technologies. On the other hand, cloud computing is born as a paradigm for distributed computing systems whose goal is to offer software as a service over the Internet…
Cloud computing offers an agile delivery model and a highly scalable infrastructure to support the demands for storage and computation of big data technologies. Both technologies are thus converging to offer an immeasurable assortment of information to mine and derive meaningful analytics from, and a growing range of services and resources with applications in any field with a stake in ICT development and innovation…
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