Big Data In the Cloud Using Cloudify
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 9:35AM Edd Dumbill wrote an interesting article on O’Reilly Radar covering the current solutions for running Big Data in the Cloud
Big data and cloud technology go hand-in-hand. Big data needs clusters of servers for processing, which clouds can readily provide.
Big PaaS
Edd touched briefly on the role of PaaS for delivering Big Data applications in the cloud
Beyond IaaS, several cloud services provide application layer support for big data work. Sometimes referred to as managed solutions, or platform as a service (PaaS), these services remove the need to ucale things such as databases or MapReduce, reducing your workload and maintenance burden. Additionally, PaaS providers can realize great efficiencies by hosting at the application level, and pass those savings on to the customer.