Information-as-a-service to boom in 2011
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 25 November 2010, 17:36 IST
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Information-as-a-service to boom in 2011
With the growing complexity of data, increasing volume of data and exploding security challenges, organizations are using Information-as-a-service as a reliable source to support their business requirements and secure their information. IaaS is poised to grow significantly in the coming years, especially as existing integration technologies are failing to meet these new requirements. Gene Leganza, who serves Enterprise Architecture Professionals, gave an insight into the latest trends that organizations are adapting to expand the use of IaaS. Some of the largest and most complex IaaS deployments supporting tens of thousands of users with terabytes of information will become more visible in 2011 and beyond and span various vertical industries, including telecommunications, government, retail, and financial services. Most IaaS deployments have been so far focus on refreshing data every day or every few hours, but now organizations are ramping up the frequency to support real-time or near-real-time data in 2011 and beyond, especially as the business value of IaaS becomes more visible across the enterprise. More Mobile companies will use IaaS services to speed mobile apps delivery. This included both transactional services, which can be triggered by iOS apps (and others), and data services, which securely and rapidly deliver trusted information to mobile devices. Organizations are realizing the importance of using unstructured data to support their decisions. As a result, integrating structured with unstructured and semi-structured data to support new and complex business decisions is becoming critical. Most organizations have read-only IaaS deployments, with a few read-and-write, but we believe that will change in 2011 and going forward. We find that typically organizations try out read-only information services first and then over time leverage read-write capabilities. So far, most of the IaaS deployments have been concentrated around very large $1B+ companies; however, smaller and moderate sized organizations are very interested in IaaS to help them overcome their data challenges. Microsoft recently announced Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket, which delivers data from commercial data providers and public data sources, such as data sets on demographics, financials, retail, weather, and sports. Thus, IaaS is finding a broader audience to reach out and help them with growing data integration challenges that traditional solutions are not addressing.

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