Infrastructure as a Service cloud platforms enable enterprise to experience agility. Infrastructure agility is key to deploying Big Data platforms and applications. As datasets grow in size and numbers in the enterprise, there needs to be a place to store, secure and analyze the datasets. IaaS clouds like Eucalyptus, with the industry’s de facto standard IaaS API implementation, can be “the place” to enable enterprises to deploy Big Data analytics and applications.
Because all data is now in a centralized secure system, it becomes easier to enforce precise and well-documented security policies on sensitive data. The combination of flexibility, rapid automation, speed with which you can dynamically programmatically control infrastructure using Eucalyptus IaaS API, enable enterprises to develop, test and deploy new Big Data applications at a fraction of the cost that’s never been possible before.