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Analytics in the Cloud

The Disruptive Power of Elastic Computing

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In this chapter, we cover fundamentals of cloud computing; the business case for cloud; analytics in the public cloud; and the disruptive power of the cloud.

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    All pricing is as of May 2016.

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    Google uses the term “virtual machine” to refer to what AWS calls an “instance”. For consistency, we use the term “instance”.

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    Pricing as of May 2016.

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    Google donated Cloud Dataflow to Apache, where it is incubating as Apache Beam.

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    Dremel is also the foundation of Apache Drill, an open source SQL engine.

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    Thomas W. Dinsmore

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Dinsmore, T.W. (2016). Analytics in the Cloud. In: Disruptive Analytics. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1311-7_7

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