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# Big Data Matters

BIG DATA MATTERS blog

## [10 Considerations for a cloud procurement](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/10-considerations-for-a-cloud-procurement)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 17-okt-2018 15:12:59

![Man in suit with cloud head and blue icons on grungy background](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/Stock%20images/Man%20in%20suit%20with%20cloud%20head%20and%20blue%20icons%20on%20grungy%20background.jpeg)

 

## Purpose

The procurement of cloud services is unlike traditional technology purchasing. Traditional procurement and contracting approaches that are designed to purchase products, such as hardware and related software, can be inconsistent with cloud services. A failure to modernize contracting and procurement approaches can reduce the pool of competitors and inhibit customer ability to adopt and leverage cloud technology.

## Ten Procurement Considerations

Cloud procurement presents an opportunity to reevaluate existing procurement strategies so you can create a flexible acquisition process that enables your organization to extract the full benefits of the cloud. The following procurement considerations are key components that can form the basis of a broader cloud procurement strategy.

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## [Serverless computing explained](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/serverless-computing-explained)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 13-aug-2018 14:00:08

![Serverless Computing](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/Serverless%20Computing.png)

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## [What is AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning?](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/what-is-ai-machine-learning-and-deep-learning)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 15-jun-2018 14:21:51

![What is AI?](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/Schermafbeelding%202018-06-15%20om%2011.28.46.png)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the field of computer science dedicated to solving cognitive problems commonly associated with human intelligence, such as learning, problem solving, and pattern recognition. Artificial Intelligence, often abbreviated as "AI", may connote robotics or futuristic scenes, AI goes well beyond the automatons of science fiction, into the non-fiction of modern day advanced computer science. 

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## [AWS hands-on workshop for students PXL-IT Hasselt](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/aws-hands-on-workshop-for-students-pxl-it-hasselt)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 4-jun-2018 14:20:42

![AWS_Hands-On_workshop_PXL](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/IMG_2722.jpg)

Analogue.cloud recently organized an AWS Hands-on Workshop for students Applied Informatics at the PXL-IT school in Hasselt. During this 3 hour session the students were introduced into the wonderful world of [AWS](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/big-data-on-aws). After some introductory slides the participants were invited to work in a real AWS environment. The students learned to setup a website that can easily be copied and deployed in different environment. They also had to establish a serverless rest call service using the AWS Lambda. During the workshop the participants played with EC2, S3, Cloudformation, Cloudfront, API Gateway and Lambda.

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## [Running Cloudera on AWS](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/running-cloudera-on-aws)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 7-mrt-2018 15:16:01

![Cloudera Director AWS.png](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/Cloudera%20Director%20AWS.png)

Customers of [Cloudera](https://info.bigindustries.be/cloudera-preferred-reseller-for-belgium-and-luxembourg) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) now have the ability to run the enterprise data hub in the AWS public cloud, leveraging the power of the Cloudera Enterprise platform and the flexibility of the AWS cloud together.

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## [Analogue.cloud winner of the APN Star contest](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/analogue.cloud-winner-of-the-apn-star-contest)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 27-nov-2017 15:59:54

![](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/analogue_cloud.png)

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***"In my view the winner : still small size, but interesting plays, super focused on AWS, strong management, they are already standard and last but not least part of Cronos, with whom we work already. Also great grow rates on a solid base already, so best return for AWS billings. Worth supporting disproportionaly !"***

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## [Real-Time Analytics with Amazon Kinesis](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/real-time-analytics-with-amazon-kinesis)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 29-sep-2017 15:48:36

![AWS Kinesis Firehose.png](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/AWS%20Kinesis%20Firehose.png)

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers use batch data reports to gain strategic insight into long-term business trends, and a growing number of customers also require streaming data to obtain actionable insights from their data in real time.

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## [Looking for a cool internship?](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/looking-for-a-cool-internship)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 31-aug-2017 13:47:51

![](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/Alexa_Internship.png)

  

Analogue.cloud is looking for motivated interns to help us to prepare and build high quality Big Data Reference Architectures for use as accelerator templates for customer projects. The objective of the internship will be to help us to create reusable Big Data Architecture blueprints that can help us rapidly build successful, high quality and robust customer implementations time and again.

  

 The solution will be used to showcase the capabilities of the [AWS platform for Big Data scenarios](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/big-data-on-aws). Thus the solution will form the basis for a technical [blog post](http://analogue.cloud/#blog) on our website. As a software consultancy, marketing our knowledge and skills to interested parties is an essential component of our business model; therefore you will be supporting a critical part of our business, and will gain exposure to some state of the art technologies in the process.

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## [Big Data on AWS](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/big-data-on-aws)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 17-aug-2017 11:51:44

![](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/BIG-DATA-ON-AWS.jpg)

 

[Amazon Web Services](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/aws-clear-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-1) provides a broad range of services to help you build and deploy Big Data analytics applications quickly and easily. AWS gives you fast access to flexible and low cost IT resources, so you can rapidly scale virtually any big data application including data warehousing, clickstream analytics, fraud detection, recommendation engines, event-driven ETL, serverless computing, and internet-of-things processing. With AWS you don’t need to make large upfront investments in time and money to build and maintain infrastructure. Instead, you can provision exactly the right type and size of resources you need to power big data analytics applications. You can access as many resources as you need, almost instantly, and only pay for what you use.

[Read More →](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/big-data-on-aws)

## [AWS Clear Leader in Gartner Magic quadrant](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/aws-clear-leader-in-gartner-magic-quadrant-1)

** Posted by [Matthias Vallaey](https://info.bigindustries.be/analogue-cloud/author/matthias-vallaey) on 22-jun-2017 11:23:06

![Gartner Quadrant AWS.png](https://info.bigindustries.be/hubfs/Gartner%20Quadrant%20AWS.png)

Gartner Research positions Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Leaders Quadrant of the new Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide (June 2017). Cloud IaaS, in the context of this Magic Quadrant, is defined as "a standardized, highly automated offering, where compute resources, complemented by storage and networking capabilities, are owned by a service provider and offered to the customer on demand."

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