Comments on: Why Amazon thinks big data was made for the cloud

By: Manoja Nara

Manoja Nara — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:57:30 +0000

Nice post explaining the correlation between big data and the cloud. A related post to look at why Big Data is buzzing around : What’s so Big about Big Data? – http://wp.me/p2Xig8-7

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:16:39 +0000

It’s interesting that connectivity is the limiting factor. Uploading huge quantities of data can be prohibitive which is where infrastructure tools can have problems. For example the varying products Amazon offers such as RDS, Dynamo and ElastiCache are only suitable if you are located in the Amazon data centres, otherwise you’ll be transiting over the public internet and latency will be prohibitive. The solution is to be located as close to your customers as possible and I’ve seen some vendors offer “hosted” services which are deployed into different providers at the customer’s choice. So if you want a hosted database but are in AWS you can access the same product if you were in Softlayer instead.

By: Kenneth Chestnut

Kenneth Chestnut — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:54:12 +0000

While Amazon is trying to lower the barriers of bringing on-premise data to the cloud (smartly so), more immediate focus should be on capturing and leveraging new data sources not yet stored…

By: Henley Wing

Henley Wing — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:49:39 +0000

Very exciting how Big Data is being used in so many industries: not just social media analytics. I think we’ll see a lot of medical advances because of this. the term “data scientist” will become the next big profession, and I hope universities start to see this trend.