Why your future is in the public cloud

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

It’s not a question of if, but of when: Most of enterprise computing will eventually be sucked up into the public cloud, kind of like the rapture in slow motion. This is not exactly a radical notion, but signs of a great skyward event keep multiplying. Last week, Salesforce sent up a flare with the announcement of Wave, its new cloud analytics platform.

Although it’s far from the first public cloud analytics play — Birst along with such startups as Adatao, Platfora, Tidemark, and many others rolled out first — the announcement of Wave is a seminal event. Wave’s introduction is important because it sets up shop atop repositories of existing customer data already stored in the public cloud by Salesforce customers. This is a sort of triple play:…

1. It overcomes one of the biggest obstacles to cloud-based analytics, which is moving data from on-premises to the public cloud

2. Analysis of customer data happens to be the area where so-called big data analytics are reaping their most tangible rewards

3. Wave should be able to mash up all that structured Salesforce data with semi-structured Web/mobile clickstream and social data, both of which are also native to the cloud…

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