Hoisting big data to the cloud
The general consensus about big data has been that it’s too expensive to move. But what if you could use remote backup copies in the cloud for analytics, app dev, and other applications? At first glance, big data analytics seems to be the perfect sort of workload for the public cloud. Particularly for batch jobs, the hyper scalable infrastructure of the cloud is ideal — pay for the powerful server clusters you need while crunching