t of cloud computing and IaaS, are we now able to get a handle of what all this data means, as powerful new computer processing architectures work to glean insights from the petabytes of data captured on our customers, markets, competitors, and employees. Technologists, rather than analysts, are becoming the go-to resource for data manipulation, using new processing architectures that store and analyze the information while remaining compliant with government regulations.
According to Jeremy Edberg, Netflix’s Reliability Architect, “data is going to be your biggest issue to deal with in the coming years. It’s what needs to be replicated to stay running. It’s what leaks when there’s a security breach. It’s what costs money to move around. And it’s the cause of latency and usability issues on poor performing corporate networking or 1st generation cloud providers. Compared to data, computing is easy. And as computing becomes a commodity in an era of clouds, we need to understand what it means to live in a Big Data world.”
One Possible Solution
Cloud infrastructure as a service providers, like ProfitBricks, are ideal partners for Big Data users due to their ability to customize the three essential computing resources of CPU performance (up to 48 real dedicated cores per server), RAM (up to 196MB) and storage (up to 16 sixteen terabit virtual drives) on an on-demand, runtime scalable basis to meet your precise data processing requirements.
Unlike 1st generation IaaS providers, ProfitBricks’ meshed 80Gbit/sec Infiniband Network is ideal for moving mass amounts of data to and from storage and CPUs. Also, when large analytic jobs are run, customers can take advantage of minute-based billing. With ProfitBricks, you can adapt each virtual server to the exact needs of your service and thus achieve optimum speed. And because your service requirements will constantly be changing, you can adjust the performance of your virtual servers at any time. In addition, Double Redundant High-Speed Storage systems keep your information safe and secure.
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Scott Brazina, VP, Business Development, ProfitBricks