What GE’s cloud computing foray means for big data
June 19, 2013
Grazed from Network World. Author: Brandon Butler.
As if GE doesn’t already have enough on its plate, the company entered the cloud computing marketing this week, announcing plans to provide cloud-based analytics services for its industrial customers. The move reinforces a couple of major themes across the industry, including a growing trend by both providers and end users to capture and actually get some value from the massive amount of data generated by their companies, machines and other sources.
It also shows how providers are increasingly offering services tailored specifically for certain vertical markets, in this case industry and manufacturing. And finally, in announcing the product in conjunction with partners Amazon Web Services and new analytics firm Pivotal, GE is showing how it can use technologies from others and package them as a service. Welcome to the world of cloud computing…
GE has two major products, one being its Predictivity line, which will provide real-time data analytics across a company’s network, while Proficy Historian HD is a separate service based on open source Apache Hadoop to provide historical analysis. GE is aiming the services at the customers to which it already supplies heavy machinery and manufacturing goods and services. This software packages can help businesses make decisions about what sorts of products should be made and how, for example. “It is only in the ability to quickly analyze, understand, and put machine-based data to work in real-time that points us to a society that benefits from the promise of big data,” GE Vice President of global software Bill Ruh said during a release party on Tuesday. “This is what the Industrial Internet is about.”…
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