Cloud Computing For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 14

Managing and Integrating Data in the Cloud

IN THIS CHAPTER

Maintaining trustworthy data

Integrating data

Working with big data in the cloud

Creating a data analytics strategy

Ensuring that your providers secure your data

Successfully managing data in a hybrid environment is critical to your business and the satisfaction of your customers. One of the complexities of data management is the variety and diversity of data within your business. There is highly structured transactional and customer data. There is a huge amount of unstructured data that exists in documents and images. The ability to manage and integrate data sources across on-premises data centers and hybrid clouds is at the core of any data strategy.

In this chapter, we discuss the need to deal with the massive amount of information that defines your business.

Ensuring Trustworthy Data

Increasingly, businesses are grappling with the problem of leveraging the flexibility and economics of the cloud while protecting ...