For the nth time I stepped out of a business meeting with an Analytics Service provider in India. These days they are doing roaring business and expanding a lot!
When Corporate types talk about objections to having corporate data in the cloud, I just feel like laughing out aloud! Especially when they claim that many corporations do not like their sensitive sales data from leaving their corporate firewalls!
What is happening in practice will give many of them ulcers in a hurry!
Large volumes of data are shipped out by FTP, service providers in India and the Philippines regularly do everything from cleansing the data to doing a thorough analysis of the data to producing reports with key insights gleaned from all this data. Like how is the Intel Atom processor based laptops doing the midwest vs the coasts!
Which set me thinking about whether the cloud will actually bring some measure of data safety and privacy back into reality rather than endanger them!
If anything, cloud based data collection, cleansing, analysis and reporting will bring in orders of efficiency and effectiveness to the whole process! Valuable time, effort can be saved in copying these files back and forth and managing the whole process. The same cloud based ETL and Analysis solutions could centralize all the data and the applications behind solid IT security and at the same time enabling what is happening anyway! Communication back and forth can also be made easy if these tools are accompanied by some online collaboration tools where information about the assignment and results could be shared back and forth!
Sometimes realitty has a way of defining itself and getting ahead of the best laid intentions!
It may be better to embrace this kind of inevitable change, address drawbacks and adopt them as solutions. Because the economics of the whole thing seems to be driving the whole thing, not IT policy!
I reject your reality and substitute it for my own - Adam Savage
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