Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Constructive data mining demands enterprise-grade IT infrastructure - The Savvis Blog

Check the full post for more details on the new Savvis big data solution; I'm psyched to be part of the team working on this for the last several months
"Most businesses are well aware of the opportunity, but its urgency and tangible benefits are often lost amidst the buzz. However, market forces are colliding right now to make this opportunity achievable.

The most prominent of these forces include commodity servers and storage, the enterprise infrastructure shift to cloud and managed services, an exceptionally productive Apache Hadoop open source community, and several fleet-footed big-data start-ups. Together, they have combined to deliver breakthrough performance and capabilities to address what were previously cost-prohibitive - or simply impossible - data management and analytics opportunities.

However, to make all these great use cases possible, big data initiatives must be treated as mission critical, just like any other core business system."
Constructive data mining demands enterprise-grade IT infrastructure - The Savvis Blog

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