People, in my experience, tend to find it hard to get their head around many "big data" concepts. It's only when they attempt to implement initiatives, and are frustrated by the basics, that they start to "get it". One of the most basic things that people seem to misunderstand is the challenge of moving data around. Most big data tutorials assume that you already have terabytes (or petabytes) of … [Read more...]
Highwaynet
There are a lot of advantages to storing your big data in the cloud. Start-ups can get going without having to set up servers and data centers. However, what about organizations that already have data centers? How do you move petabytes of valuable data to a cloud provider? You rarely see much coverage of this---because it's a difficult problem. There are no clever technical solutions. Amazon's … [Read more...]