If you have been looking into cloud computing, then the chances are you have come across the term big data. This is used to describe the large volumes of data that modern-day businesses are processing. We are not so worried about the mass of data, but more about how we can use this data. Almost everything carries a digital footprint these days, and there are challenges to ingest this data and to extract meaningful information. Google offers services that work together to allow us to first gather data, and then process it, before finally analyzing it. The faster we can analyze this means the faster business decisions can be made. Big data is becoming very important to many organizations.
In this chapter, we will ...
