Microsoft and Amazon have just announced impressive financial results for the first quarter of 2018 (third fiscal quarter). These excellent results are largely related to the respective cloud activities of the two US companies. In Q1 2018 (third fiscal quarter), Microsoft posted revenue of $ 26.8 billion, 16% more than in Q1 2017. Net...
Read MoreIoT (Internet of Things) is a highly popular technology that is expected to play a pivotal role in the fourth industrial revolution, which is represented by the convergence of manufacturing and information and communications technologies. The topics of the fourth industrial revolution include connectivity, intelligence, and automation, and the IoT technology will serve as...
Read MoreWhen defining the cloud and big data, it’s helpful to consider both the consumer and producer perspectives. For consumers, the cloud is about consuming hardware or software as a service (SaaS) and the various implications of this approach. For example, pricing models and data governance may change dramatically. In public clouds, the services are...
Read MoreBefore we arrive at the present, however, let’s look at how big data on the public cloud got started. The early innovators in big data infrastructure (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook) were of course large public cloud companies, but ran on their own private infrastructures.Although the public cloud companies have been developing big data...
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