Big Data And The Cloud The amount of data in our world increases massively day-by-day. Big data is about capturing, storing and analyzing large pools of data from customers/consumers, suppliers, partners, operations, employees etc. According to a McKinsey report, US companies from almost all industry sectors have, on average, hundreds of terabytes of data stored per company. The amount of data is growing as companies gather more and more information with each transaction and interaction with their customers. There are some unique benefits of Big Data that companies just can’t ignore: · Information is transparent and usable at a much
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CIOs & BIG DATA: What Your IT Team Wants You to Know The purpose of Big Data is to supply companies with actionable information on any variety of aspects. But this is proving to be far more difficult than it looks. Studies have shown that more than half of Big Data projects are left uncompleted, with 58% of them citing inaccurate scope as a cause. This hints at a widespread shortcoming of Big Data project management. In fact, two of the most often reported reasons for project failures are a lack of expertise in data analysis, both from a correlative
Cloud Stakeholders Paint A Picture Of Trends In The Latter Half Of 2012 There has been much ado about the direction that cloud computing is heading after it has received rave reviews. This trend seems to be at its hottest pitch, with companies from all sectors now showing more interest than ever to join the cloud. In mid June 2012, North Bridge Venture Partners revealed the results of a survey that sought to find out what business leaders see in the cloud, at least in the near future. It emerged that 50 percent of stakeholders in the tech sector believe
Need for Speed: Towards Satiating End Consumer Cloud Speed Craving Every passing day, end consumers have involuntarily been fine-tuned to anticipate technology at large becoming swift in terms of the offered data rate, superior in terms of quality of service and inexpensive in terms of aggregated cost. In essence, the modern day consumer is in a constant state of technological rush – the distinctive feature that has an impact on all facets of business operations and returns. It is not long ago that users exhibited a craving for web based content to be delivered instantly after system power up. The
Amazon Reaches Mars The moment the United Kingdom hosts the Olympics, the United States lands on Mars. Competitive? Of course NASA used the most cutting-edge technology, the most advanced of it’s kind: it used cloud computing. Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, must be the happiest man in the world right now. Bezos is a known space nut who invests his massive fortune in space exploration. In fact it can now be said that Amazon’s reach extends to Mars. Not just “Earth’s biggest selection” then. NASA using Amazon Web Service is quite a testimonial. If it’s good enough for NASA, it’s probably
Scientists Demonstrate Perfectly Secure Cloud Computing Through Quantum Computing Recent research has demonstrated the perfect marriage of the hottest computing technology today – cloud computing – and the hottest computing technology of tomorrow – quantum computing. Now, readers of this website are well aware of what cloud computing is; however, quantum computing may be something new for them. In simplest terms, unlike traditional transistor-based computing that depends on the basic units (bits) existing in any one of two possible values, quantum computing makes use of qubits that can exist in a superposition of multiple states at the same time. Although
9 Trends that Impact the Future of Mobile Cloud Computing Mobile cloud is the convergence of cloud computing and mobile apps. It is one of the hottest trends in cloud computing that is expected to play an increasingly important role in the future. The need for mobile clouds stem from the following trends: Enterprise and consumer mobiles apps are getting increasingly smart. The days of using mobile phone just to access the Exchange and browsing the web is giving away into using the mobile for accessing spreadsheets, delivering presentations and performing data processing. To cater to the intensive computing needs
