Mar
21
2012
While most of the talk around big data assumes such systems will be deployed in-house, Google is building a service that will allow for analyzing large amounts of data in the cloud.
The service, called BigQuery, would help organizations analyze their data without the need for building infrastructure, explained Google product manager Ju-Kay Kwek, speaking at the GigaOm Structure Data conference being held this week in New York.

With BigQuery, "you can build applications and share data all as a service," Kwek said. Google now offers the service in a limited preview mode for a handful of customers. Kwek did not say when the service would be fully available.More...