Chapter 11
Managing and Integrating Data
In This Chapter
Ensuring trustworthy data
Integrating data across environments
Managing big data in the cloud
Supporting an analytics strategy
T here’s no way around it: The issues surrounding data in the cloud are a big and complicated topic. The reality is that data is the lifeblood of your business. Therefore, the way you manage data, regardless of where it lives, is critical to the health of your company. This data comes in all shapes and sizes. There may be transactional data, customer data, and various kinds of unstructured data, such as documents and images. Your data might be massive in terms of sheer volume. Or it might be coming at you in real time. You may want to use this data for analysis or to provide other business value.
Being able to manage this data and ensure that it’s trustworthy is a critical issue in hybrid cloud environments. Depending on the sensitivity of your data and your business requirements, some of this data can be stored on your premises and integrated with a private cloud, whereas other data sources that may ...
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