by Angela Guess
Ian Fyfe recently reported, “Save the date: Cloud computing and big data analytics are poised for a blissful union, and it figures to be a match made in heaven…er, the cloud. Big data, of course, is the hot trend in high-performance computing. It’s large scale, it’s often unstructured, and it’s extremely valuable for enterprises looking to make sense out of huge datasets. Cloud computing has been the darling term of the tech world for the last few years as it ushers in a new era of computing as a service, despite lingering concerns over security, availability and cost.”
He continues, “The scale of big data can make it an interesting partner for the cloud at first glance. With that scale comes a high complexity in managing it, and, as such, big data analytics is usually kept on local clusters of servers. The advantage of the cloud, meanwhile, is about optimizing available resources as efficiently as possible. Still, if implemented correctly, there is no reason you shouldn’t be able to combine the benefits of big data with the benefits of the cloud.”
