Databases take a long time to build, populate and manage, but deploying in the cloud holds great promise for changing all of that.
Time is probably the most valuable commodity in business. «Time is money» is a trite way of saying that those who move the quickest are usually the ones who get the loot.
But current database technology is anything but timely. Databases take a long time to build, populate and manage, and more often than not produce valuable results only after hours of number crunching. And with Big Data, social networking, the Internet of Things and other data-intensive workloads on the near horizon, database functionality is likely to become slower still.