While the cloud promises more operational simplicity for implementing big data projects, it doesn’t mean that enterprises can bypass the cost and management issues they face with onboarding new applications and data sets. While Ovum expects that cloud will account for most greenfield big data implementations by 2019 (not much over a year from now), that still leaves plenty of organizations that will be juggling on premise and cloud deployments.
MapR’s new Orbit Cloud Suite addresses organizations planning to manage or tier data storage for hybrid on premise/cloud deployments. It supports two-way movement of data from on-premise to the cloud and back.
