Blog Assignment #4 ’s Law, Cloud Computing, and DW/BI

Cloud computing is creating a new era for IT by providing a set of services that appear to have infinite capacity, immediate deployment, and high availability at trivial cost. The cloud appeals to organizations struggling with expanding data volumes, low utilization of IT assets, and lack of self-service business analytics. 

Breakthrough 1

Microsoft 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW)

Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is a next-generation platform built to run your data analysis fast and to scale storage from a few terabytes to over 6 petabytes in a single appliance. PDW ships to your data center as an appliance with hardware and software pre-installed and pre-configured for maximum performance. With PDW’s Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) design, queries run in minutes instead of hours, and in seconds instead of minutes in comparison to today’s Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) databases.

Breakthrough 2

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure, as Microsoft's cloud platform, is an open and flexible cloud computing system that can build infrastructure, develop modern applications, gain insights from data, and manage identity and access.

Azure is the only major cloud platform ranked by Gartner as an industry leader for both infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS). This powerful combination of managed and unmanaged services lets you build, deploy, and manage applications any way you like for unmatched productivity.

Availability is not merely Disaster Recovery in the cloud, it’s the empowering connection between a datacenter and the cloud for protection and value creation. With today’s announcement, Microsoft provides comprehensive Availability on Demand in Azure for hybrid and heterogeneous environments, allowing organizations to harness a near unlimited amount of compute and storage in the cloud for dev/test, cloud bursting, migration, reporting/analytics, recovery, backup and long-term data retention.

Citation:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/azure-vs-aws/

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/what-is-azure/

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/26/hybrid-cloud-without-the-hassle-simply-connect-to-azure-with-availability-on-demand/

http://www.teradata.com/Resources/Web-Casts/Exploring-Cloud-Computing-Options-for-Data-Warehousing/#sthash.oiD5lWki.dpuf

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn520808.aspx