Cloud Data Analytics on Ulitzer
In the previous article we looked at how realtime cloud analytics looks set
to disrupt the $25B SQL/OLAP sector of the IT industry. What are users
looking for from a next-generation post-SQL/OLAP enterprise analytics
solution? Let's look at the requirements:
Realtime + Historical Data. In addition to analyzing (historical) data held
in databases (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, MySQL) or datastores (Hadoop, Amazon
Elastic MapReduce), a next-gen analytics solution needs to be able to
analyze, filter and transform live data streams in realtime, with low
latency, and to be able to "push" just the right data, at the right time, to
users throughout the enterprise. With SQL/OLAP or Hadoop/MapReduce, users
"pull" historical data via queries or programs ... (more)
For twenty years, analytics has been viewed as just one specific area within
the broader relational database industry. So, analytics has meant databases.
Today that view is changing. Over the past year or so, a new movement, the
"NoSQL" movement has emerged promoting the advantages of doing a variety of
kinds of analytics without using any relational database technologies at all.
Whatever ... (more)
Cloud Data Analytics on Ulitzer
Cloud analytics is hot. Gartner's top two strategic technologies for the
enterprise in 2010 are cloud computing and advanced analytics. In their words
"Technologies you can't afford to ignore".
Venture capitalist Ann Winblad, in a recent video, points out that the coming
era of realtime cloud analytics will have a revolutionary impact on the
enterprise, cr... (more)
A realtime data explosion is underway throughout business, finance,
government, health, media, science, sensors and the web. Individuals and
organizations that had only recently figured out how to cope with thousands
or millions of events per day are now drowning in billions of realtime events
per day, and for leading organizations the number is rapidly heading towards
ONE TRILLION EVENT... (more)
Bill McColl's "Cloud N" Blog
This is an incredibly important time for the cloud computing area. But
let’s try and move the discussion of it in the press along from an
obsession with new datacenter buildings located by power stations, with the
total server numbers at Microsoft and Google, and with Amazon’s hourly
pricing for EC2. Interesting though those aspects of cloud computing appear
... (more)
Bill McColl is Founder and CEO, Cloudscale Inc. - which is developing a massively parallel cloud-based platform for continuous real-time intelligence on live data streams.
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