Next generation mainstream cloud computing products: Large data analysis

To further enrich its cloud products front, navisite, a cloud computing and hosting company affiliated with Time Warner Cable, unveiled a new product plan designed to provide storage services to customers. As analysts say, the move marks an important step for cloud-service vendors to make big data analysis markets.

At the INTEROP2012 conference, NaviSite company unveiled a smart storage product called Navicloudintelligentstorage. The product is based on the Emcatmos cloud architecture, allowing enterprise customers to store, back up and implement file sharing with its help. NaviSite has been running traditional hosting application services, and in recent years has turned to developing collaboration tools and virtual desktop systems. According to Chrispatterson, the NaviSite company's cloud product director, object storage will quickly become a focus for corporate users.

"This is not disruptive change, it's just an extension of our intrinsic business," Patterson points out. "In the past we have launched a number of outstanding cloud products, but to let enterprises in the market competition, we also need to find a stronger and more responsive to customer needs of supporting services." "The company has worked out a preliminary service billing mechanism-$ 0.2 per gigabyte, and the package will be officially online this June."

Richardvillars, an analyst with IDC Research, said the NaviSite company was trying to bring a more complete global software portfolio to customers on the basis of consolidating existing cloud products. He also pointed out that the next step for infrastructure manufacturers will be to use cloud resources to store data, and continuously upgrade the processing capacity of analytical tools, and ultimately realize the fundamental purpose of information for business services. "We expect big data Analysis Services to be absolutely essential if we are to get our companies to take a firm foothold in the high-end cloud services market in the next few years," he said. To achieve this plan, we must first create a complete object storage service. "It is clear that any vendor that intends to carry out cloud data analysis must first have a set of object storage operations." To provide customers with data storage space, we can really get this kind of important business information, analysis of development strategy can be targeted to go on. ”

NaviSite has not yet announced specific plans to enter large data analysis areas, but Patterson says it is ready to scale up its existing services in the coming months.

Villars that the large data analysis business in cloud computing will gradually accumulate super high man in the enterprise end user crowd. Most of the work associated with large data analysis requires companies to prepare huge amounts of computing resources in a short period of time, and this explosion of demand growth is clearly not affordable for every company. "It has been proved that it is not realistic to carry out a continuous analysis of information; we can only concentrate on the advantage of resources and try to compress the analytical work in a shorter period of time." In the past four days, now four hours, to win this battle, companies should obviously use the power of cloud services, "Villars explained.

As more and more businesses keep their business data in the public cloud, their interest in buying data Analysis Services becomes increasingly strong, he said. At the same time, service providers can use Hadoop as a representative of various analytical tools to meet customer demand, and to create a new set of service development direction.

Industry giants have also begun to act. Just this month, Google has just released BigQuery, a cloud based large data analysis tool. Amazonwebservices has also completed the development of cloud based Hadoop product--elasticmapreduce. "We are not going to make alarmist remarks, but if we are not interested, we can simply ignore this technological trend." But the fact is undeniable that the entire cloud services market has begun to move closer to big data analysis, "Villars concluded.

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