Warehousing in the Cloud: Useful, But Try Not to Overdo It
March 7, 2014
Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Arthur Cole.
If two technologies have ever seen a timelier rise to prominence, it would have to be cloud computing and data warehousing. The symbiosis couldn’t be clearer: Big Data and analytics coupled with the ability to quickly and easily scale infrastructure to petabyte levels. Acceptance of cloud technology is clearly entering the mainstream, and this seems to be one of the key drivers for the advanced analytics capabilities that warehousing provides.
According to TechNavio, the global data warehousing market is set to grow by more than 11 percent per year between now and 2018, which is impressive considering that even with the cloud as a foundation, warehousing is still a complicated process that reaches into just about every legacy system and architecture in the enterprise…
Of course, the big boost came last month when Amazon introduced new tiers on its Redshift warehousing service that enables clients to tap into highly dense computing systems and advanced business intelligence software. The platform now provides compute blocks of 32 processing cores, 2.56TB of solid state storage and 244GB of RAM, all for about 25 cents per hour. These can scale into petabyte-class infrastructure at costs as low as $1,000 per TB per year, which Amazon says is about a tenth of what an equivalent on-premise warehousing solution would run…
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