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About a year and a half ago, I wrote about Big Data Opportunities, focusing primarily on Leveraging Unused Data, Driving New Value From Summary Data and Harnessing Heterogeneous Data Sensors (more recently known as Internet of Things). Since that post, data space has exploded with numerous solutions addressing many of these areas. These solutions while mostly based on batch operations and limited to serial MapReduce jobs against frequently off-line, inadequately secured, Hadoop cluster, they do allow access to previously inaccessible data. ...

In general, Platform as a Service (PaaS) is developed by developers for developers. Of course they’re going to love it. It enables them to focus on the nuances of their applications — not on the day-to-day pointless activities that so often take their time away from solving real problems. ...