Cloud Analytics

Cloud analytics are services accessed via the Internet that provides business intelligence or data analytics with some portion of processing implemented in the cloud. Like other cloud services, cloud analytics are highly scalable, allowing companies to access the exact amount of resources they need for a given workload at any time.

Cloud analytics services typically include:

• Data sources, including information from a wide variety of internal data points or data access from third-party sources.
• Data models that interpret and standardize how data points are connected.
• Applications for processing data as it enters a data store or warehouse.
• Raw computing power needed to ingest, clean, analyze and manipulate data at scale.
• Analytic models that are used to predict outcomes.
• Data storage solutions that enable implementation of cloud analytics architecture.

With cloud analytics solutions, enterprises can:

• Aggregate data from many disparate sources.
• Provide easy access to users and stakeholders.
• Share and collaborate on analytics or easily.
• Reduce the cost of managing analytics by eliminating the need to purchase, install, manage and upgrade analytics infrastructure on premises. 
• Scale analytics capabilities easily as business needs dictate.

While cloud analytics offer tremendous advantages, managing cloud analytics platforms presents significant challenges. IT teams today are tasked with managing a broad range of cloud environments and moving cloud workloads between them. Each cloud technology has its own management framework and a unique processes. Lacking a common set of management tools across cloud offerings, IT teams can quickly become overwhelmed by the complexity of constantly switching between platforms. Migrating workloads becomes more time-consuming and risk-prone.

Hybrid cloud environments offer a solution by providing a consistent management experience across public, private and edge cloud resources as well as services like cloud analytics. The key is finding a platform that can deliver the tools and services for successful hybrid cloud deployment. That’s where Dell Technologies Cloud provides tremendous value.

As a leading cloud company, Dell Technologies delivers infrastructure that provides a simple and secure path for enterprises to embrace hybrid cloud computing. Combining the expertise of VMware and Dell Technologies, this jointly engineered solution improves the cloud experience with a consistent operating model for easier management of private clouds, public clouds and edge locations.

With Dell Technologies Cloud, enterprises get a highly scalable hyperconverged infrastructure platform, a cloud management/orchestration tool, and a broad portfolio of services that enable IT teams to successfully deploy and manage hybrid cloud technology to take advantage of cloud analytics and other next-generation applications.

Dell Technologies Cloud is a suite of solutions that include:

• VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on VxRail. This turnkey hyperconverged infrastructure platform provides consistent infrastructure and operations, enabling organizations to run traditional workloads alongside cloud-native applications with consistent and seamless operations. 
• Data Center-as-a-Service with VMware on Dell EMC. This fully managed, subscription-based service accelerates innovation by bringing the simplicity and agility of the public cloud to private data centers.
  
• Dell Technologies Cloud Validated Designs. This solution provides best-of-breed Dell Technologies infrastructure that is interoperable with VMware Cloud Foundation, delivered as pre-tested designs with extensive deployment guidance.
• Partner clouds. Dell Technologies Cloud provides a simple way to extend clouds to the public cloud, with support for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and more than 4,200 additional cloud partners.

What is cloud analytics?

Cloud analytics is data analytics technology offered by a cloud service provider where a portion of the analytics process is performed in cloud. Cloud analytics may use data sources from the cloud or provide cloud-based processing applications. Cloud analytics may also use raw computing power and analytics models provided through cloud services, and cloud analytics services frequently include Data Warehouses-as-a-Service that make it easy to scale analytics quickly.

What are the benefits of cloud analytics?

With easy access to scalable storage and compute, cloud analytics enable easier data consolidation and processing. Cloud analytics can scale easily, providing additional capacity to handle large workloads on short notice, and cloud analytics can help to reduce costs, as enterprises only pay for the services they consume.