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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

Cloud technology and innovation drives data-driven decision making culture in any organization. Cloud washing is storing data on the cloud for use over the internet. Storing data is extremely expensive even with VMs during this time. 2006: Amazon spearheads the cloud initiative, drops EC2 and S3 into the market.

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A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action

Occam's Razor

Is there anything in the analytics space that is so full of promise and hype and sexiness and possible awesomeness than "big data?" So what is big data really? As I interpret it, big data is the collection of massive databases of structured and unstructured data. It is great that we have big data.

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