Big data analytics is about collecting and analyzing large data sets in order to discover useful information and gain valuable insights previously unknown. The analysis of these large data sets helps uncover hidden patterns, find market trends, discover unknown correlations, and otherwise find treasures of valuable information.
Until recently, the processing of very large data sets was performed on clusters of physically on-premise machines. That meant spending an unnecessary portion of the day managing the distributed infrastructure rather than on focusing on the critical ...
