There will soon be a myriad of announcements of DBMS offerings in the cloud.
Many of these will NOT be marriages made in heaven. However, the most
innovative new DBMS software combined with new cloud computing services are
here today and truly take advantage of the cloud architecture in order to
change the economics and the responsiveness of business analytics.
My belief is that cloud computing will change the economics of business
intelligence (BI) and enable a variety of new analytic data management
projects and business possibilities. It does so by making the hardware,
networking, security, and software needed to create data marts and data
warehouses available on demand with a pay-as-you-go approach to usage and
licensing.
A computing cloud, such as the Amazon Elastic ... (more)