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Outline
1 Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................3 2 Why analytics industry is slow in moving to the cloud.......................................................................................................4 3 Factors to consider for Cloud Analytics.............................................................................................................................4 4 Decision points for selecting cloud technology, services and provider..............................................................................6 4.1 The type of cloud (public, private or hybrid).................................................................................................................6 4.2 The cloud database management level.......................................................................................................................8 4.3 The data model for the cloud database..................................................................................................................... 10 4.4 The BI / analytics tools...............................................................................................................................................12 4.5 Data movement /ETL tools........................................................................................................................................13 4.6 Additional PaaS services...........................................................................................................................................14 5 A complete example........................................................................................................................................................15 5.1 Requirements............................................................................................................................................................15 5.2 Decision points..........................................................................................................................................................18 5.2.1 Type of cloud....................................................................................................................................................18 5.2.2 Cloud database management level.................................................................................................................18 5.2.3 Data model of the cloud database...................................................................................................................20 5.2.4 BI / analytics tools............................................................................................................................................20 5.2.5 Data movement /ETL tools...............................................................................................................................20 5.2.6 Additional PaaS services.................................................................................................................................22 6 Product-to-Product comparison.......................................................................................................................................22 6.1.1 ETL.........................................................................................................................................................................22 6.1.2 Machine Learning...................................................................................................................................................22 6.1.3 Cloud Function........................................................................................................................................................23 6.1.4 Cloud Data Warehouses.........................................................................................................................................23 6.1.5 Data Visualization...................................................................................................................................................23 7 References ......................................................................................................................................................................24 8 Appendix 1 – Performance and scalability ......................................................................................................................25 Performance....................................................................................................................................................................2 5 Scalability ........................................................................................................................................................................2 5 9 Appendix 2 – IaaS management in Microsoft Azure .......................................................................................................2 6 10 Appendix 3 – Main cloud service provider competitors................................................................................................... 27 10.1 Google Cloud Platform............................................................................................................................................ 27 10.1.1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................ 27 10.1.2 GCP Components in detail ............................................................................................................................ 29 10.2 Amazon Web Services ............................................................................................................................................3 2 10.2.1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................3 2 10.2.2 AWS Components in detail............................................................................................................................3 4 10.3 Microsoft Azure Cloud ............................................................................................................................................. 37 10.3.1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................ 37 10.3.2 Azure Components in detail........................................................................................................................... 38 10.4 IBM Bluemix ............................................................................................................................................................4 2 10.4.1 Overview........................................................................................................................................................4 2 10.4.2 Bluemix components in detail........................................................................................................................4 3