Opportunity Cost — How Cloud Changes the TCO of Data, Analytics

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H T  Technologies    of   2015  

HOST:  Eric  Kavanagh  

     THIS  YEAR  is…  

ANALYST:  

Lyndsay  Wise  President,    WiseAnalytics  

ANALYST:  

Dr.  Robin  Bloor  Chief  Analyst,    The  Bloor  Group  

GUEST:  

Marc  Clark  Director,  Cloud  Strategy  &  Deployment,  Teradata  TH

E  LINE  UP  

Why Cloud? Traditional Cloud benefits

AGILITY SCALABILITY

LOWER INITIAL COSTS EASE OF MAINTENANCE

MINIMAL STAFFING NEEDS RIGHT SIZED ENVIRONMENTS

Common Concerns

Potential Cloud Issues •  Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud

•  Challenges of relocating processing

•  Challenges of relocating data

•  Governance challenges

Let’s Compare

How are these benefits and issues different with

DATA ANALYTICS CLOUDS?

The Competitive Landscape

How is the ability to deploy analytics in the cloud changing the COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE for organizations?

Challenges to Moving Analytics to the Cloud

DATA MOVEMENT

INCREASED COMPLEXITY

LACK OF CONTROL

Evaluating TCO of Analytics in the Cloud

Perceived Benefits Perceived Challenges Time to value Security

Broader accessibility to analytics platforms (i.e., through big data storage, managed services, etc.)

Organization control over data

Lack of hardware acquisition Data movement and broad integration

Fixed costs

Are organizations developing a cloud analytics strategy for the RIGHT reasons?

Increasing Flexibility

Organizations have more CHOICES: The control the HOWS and WHERES of deployment

(hybrid, private cloud, public cloud)

More OPTIONS for platform use and types of analytics

Lower COST to entry (at least initially)

They can decide HOW MUCH DATA and where

Technology Choices for Analytics in the Cloud

Organizations will need to make (and UPDATE) technology choices:

Data storage choices: databases, data stores, etc.

Ancillary BI software: reporting, dashboards, BI tools

Analytics software: languages and packages

Data wrangling software: data audit, ETL, data cleansing, etc.

Integration software

Other Topics to Discuss

①  Does moving to the cloud prevent or ease vendor lock-in?

②  Is the cloud a silver bullet to solve all of a company’s infrastructure problems?

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