6 companies doing big data in the cloud

Cloud computing and big data analytics are a match made in heaven. ... several companies have already melded the two into a variety of unique services.

Quantivo. Quantivo just announced its foray into the space Tuesday with a cloud-based version of its analytics platform. The platform combines business data from multiple sources, transforms and enriches it, then lets customers work with it via Quantivo's specialized interface. ...

1010data. 1010data actually has been doing big data as a service for more than a decade, before anyone was talking about the cloud. It provides a variety of services for specific big data use cases, including data warehousing, business intelligence advanced analytics. ...

Opera Solutions. Opera Solutions is an interesting company, because although it's doing $100 million in revenue a year, relatively few people have heard of it. But its service is pretty compelling: Customers upload their data to Opera's platform, which then analyzes it and delivers results based on the relevant "signals" in a customer's data set. ...

... The article also covers IBM, Amazon Web Services, and HPCC Systems (LexisNexis spinoff and Hadoop alternative).

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