“I think SMAC will continue to grow and mature and the demand for more sophisticated data like streaming videos and online television will be a real game changer,” stated Barbara P. Aichinger, co-founder of FuturePlus Systems and VP of New Business Development, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair. “Analytics is also very important and will become part of “Big Data,” meaning the data pulled and pushed to and from the cloud will have an analytic associated with it.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Barbara P. Aichinger: It’s about saving time and money but it can be scary. As someone who really understands how the hardware works and, more important, how it doesn’t work I can understand the apprehension. The cloud needs standards especially in the quality and reliability area so that folks know their data is safe.