The reference architecture for Big Data

The IT department often puts in trouble when departments of their demand a Big Data solution.

Most stakeholders is not clear at the beginning of such projects for which the anticipated workloads infrastructure is to be aligned. This makes the trade-off between scalability and cost. A new approach on a reference architecture provides a remedy.

Anyone ordering a motor, should know to what this vehicle is used. Depending on the use of either a high-performance diesel or a petrol engine more quickly, or more recently, a more economical hybrid or electric drive is selected. Departments order being reinforced an engine - in other words: a new infrastructure - in the IT department, whose future application is largely unknown.

We are talking about the development and implementation of a business idea in the field of Big Data. A typical use case from the marketing, for example, the realization of a click-stream analysis. A distribution typical application is the creation of an after-sales analysis, which is expected by the IT to detect the systems that consolidates and analyzes, thus let himself be "predictive analytics" make forecasts for the future buying behavior of customers. Also in the production and in many other areas are increasingly the need developed for a variety of applications in the area of Big Data Analytics.

Terra Incognita

Essentially, three goals can recognize those who are persecuted by departments attended:

1. The optimization of existing business processes

2. The development of new products and services

3. The chance of an enhanced service orientation

As companies often do not know at the time of request, how an application is developed, are the IT department prior to insufficient information on how it is to align the infrastructure and what scalability is required. Nevertheless, from the department a sustainable solution "for all cases" expected.

How to optimize your IT budget

"The profit lies in purchasing". A well-known slogan, which is among diehard merchants and freshmen in business administration equally known. Far too often this rather simple approach is also transferred to the budgets of IT departments.

Across all industries know CIOs and CTOs, the demand for cost discipline or even budget cuts. In the age of global competition and tight margins an understandable demand, but which is difficult to comply with. Even the highest quality and reliability of the infrastructure required by the operational units at the same time.

A simple change in strategy CTOs and CIOs could, but significantly reduce the cost of network infrastructure and thus improve returns for their businesses. However, these opportunities often remain untapped, while cost-conscious managers are some good alternatives open. For example, if the end-of-life of a Cisco router, announced no further features are implemented from that date and it remains a year in which the system is still available for purchase.

In the next step, it is no longer possible to transfer the system to a new maintenance contract. Here at last leaves of OEM customers with the product finally out in the cold. Due to the short life cycles of these business practices created for the customer in very high costs.