Cloud computing is a powerful technology to perform massive-scale and complex
computing. It eliminates the need to maintain expensive computing hardware, dedicated …

Big data is currently one of the most critical emerging technologies. Big Data are used as a
concept that refers to the inability of traditional data architectures to efficiently handle the …

With the recent advancements in computer technologies, the amount of data available is
increasing day by day. However, excessive amounts of data create great challenges for …

Advances in information technology and its widespread growth in several areas of business,
engineering, medical, and scientific studies are resulting in information/data explosion …

While technologies to build and run big data projects have started to mature and proliferate
over the last couple of years, exploiting all potentials of big data is still at a relatively early …

The rapid growth of emerging applications and the evolution of cloud computing
technologies have significantly enhanced the capability to generate vast amounts of data …

Communicating by using information technology in various ways produces big amounts of
data. Such data requires processing and storage. The cloud is an online storage model …

Today, a paradigm shift is being observed in science, where the focus is gradually shifting
away from operation to data, which is greatly influencing the decision making also. The data …

Big Data is used in decision making process to gain useful insights hidden in the data for
business and engineering. At the same time it presents challenges in processing, cloud …

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and Web 2.0 technologies, there has been a
tremendous growth in the amount of data generated. This chapter emphasizes on the need …