A Quick Dive into Cloud Data Streaming Technology

Introduction Cloud computing evolved from the massive data centers that were built to handle the “big data” challenges that confronted the designers of on-line services like search and e-mail. For the most part, data from these services accrued into large collections in the cloud where they could be analyzed by massively parallel, batch computing jobs. The types of knowledge derived from this analysis is used to improve the services that generated the data in the first place. For example, data analysis of cloud system log files can yield valuable information about how to improve performance of the cloud system. Analysis of user search terms can improve the search index. Analysis of vast collections of text can be used to create new machine learning based services such as natural language translation services.