Cloud solutions have arrived and are here to stay.Innovative companies are reviewing their data management strategies to identify where and how cloud implementations should play a role. These new programs are driven by an array of cloud-based value propositions and technology advancements that enable companies to disrupt traditional data management paradigms in favor of new ways to create value. Analytics has followed this trend and is providing new opportunities to serve enterprise end users and projects.
Cloud-based analytics are becoming commonplace as most industry sectors identify opportunities to augment or replace existing infrastructure with this cutting edge technology. This adoption trend parallels ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) research 1 that identifies growing trends toward a more combined data management landscape such as the EMA Hybrid Data Ecosystem (HDE). These new environments are focused on leveraging purpose-built platforms, such as cloud, to align data, applications, and workloads for performance and cost advantage. Nearly sixty percent of respondents to recent EMA research indicate they are leveraging cloud platforms as part of sophisticated data management programs such as an HDE.