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Evolution and differentiation -- a powerful theme in life sciences. Also in IT. Just as our current understanding of clouds evolved from what came before, clouds themselves will inevitably evolve and differentiate. Crossbreed cloud concepts with big data concepts, and the offspring is what we're starting to informally call a "datacloud". Children not only can inherit the best traits of their parents, but often they exhibit talents that neither parent had. The same is true of dataclouds -- clear lineage with the parents, but showing some unique traits as well. It was great to see the positive reaction on my recent post "From Databases To Dataclouds". Lots of interesting discussions resulted, so now I'm encouraged to share more of the thinking. Since many of us are familiar with cloud concepts as well as big data concepts, I'd like to outline my case as to why the latter will inevitably shape the former. Cloud Concepts 101 I should tread carefully here, lest I inadvertently trigger a flame war from the clouderati as well as the more aggressive clouderistas. Most clouds today are thought of as variable compute services: elastic, on-demand, easy to consume with pay-per-use. Whether that is delivered externally as... |
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