Q & A
“ What many businesses forget to focus on when implementing new technologies , is leading from the top and getting buy-in from the workforce ”
— Craig Stewart , SVP of Product at SnapLogic
70 and compliance requirements . I do think this will change over time , as the cloud continues to mature , but we ’ re not there yet . Today , the best option for most large enterprises remains a blend of both on-premise and cloud platforms , with a plan to move more and more to the cloud in the years ahead .
Moving Big Data to the cloud isn ’ t particularly new , so why do you think businesses are only starting to do so now ?
For many organisations , they ’ ve invested a ton of time , resources and money in building their on-premises IT landscape . They ’ re not just going to just throw that away and start anew , particularly if the short-term return on investment ( ROI ) isn ’ t clear . There ’ s some element of ‘ wait and see ’ with the cloud , and also ‘ if it ain ’ t broke , don ’ t fix it ’ about on-premise . Some of this also comes down to the organisational appetite for risk and change , which requires courage and can be hard .
There ’ s also the technical challenge of actually moving big data to the cloud . Connecting on-premises data lakes
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