tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898949683610477251.post3339094449895398610..comments2008-06-16T21:11:10.568+01:00Tom Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02418758537880869494noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8898949683610477251.post-78024480541001721552008-06-16T18:20:00.000+01:002008-06-16T18:20:00.000+01:00Tom:<BR/><BR/> I totally agree with you that data processing in the cloud is going to be the next revolution. The past couple of weeks I have been working through the economics of cloud computing. That analysis points in the direction of the impending division between organizations that use data mining versus those organizations that do not. I believe that the organizations that do not extract information from their operational data will be served quite economically by Google and Rackspace , but those organizations that want to differentiate through data mining will want to keep the cloud under their own control. The amount of data manipulation that needs to take place to organize the data for analysis and the final analysis itself is highly unstructured since the organization tries to discover trends and act upon the data as it is found. This requires that the data and the software that contains the data is closer to the developer/business analyst and thus is more productively managed in house.<BR/><BR/>TheoTheohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18249997607495408266noreply@blogger.com