X-Informatics Unit 3: Data Deluge 5: Internet
Channel: Digital Science Center Courses
Date: 2013-09-04

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Lesson Overview:
Clouds and Big Data are transformational on a 2-5 year time scale. Already Amazon AWS is a lucrative business with almost a $4B revenue. Geoffrey describes the nature of cloud centers with economies of scale and gives examples of importance of virtualization in server consolidation. Then key characteristics of clouds are reviewed with expected high growth in Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service.