Choosing a cloud provider

Big data in the cloud is an area of the market where Google’s immense experience in search has synergies, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure are attracting some interesting startup companies to add value. The result is a vibrant spectrum of big da…

Migrating to AWS

Moving a meaningful portion—not necessarily all—of your organization’s existing IT assets to the cloud is considered a “migration.” A migration might consist of moving a single data center, a collection of data centers or …