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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By : Sanket Thodge
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Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform

By: Sanket Thodge

Overview of this book

With the ongoing data explosion, more and more organizations all over the world are slowly migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. These cloud platforms also provide their distinct analytics services to help you get faster insights from your data. This book will give you an introduction to the concept of analytics on the cloud, and the different cloud services popularly used for processing and analyzing data. If you’re planning to adopt the cloud analytics model for your business, this book will help you understand the design and business considerations to be kept in mind, and choose the best tools and alternatives for analytics, based on your requirements. The chapters in this book will take you through the 70+ services available in Google Cloud Platform and their implementation for practical purposes. From ingestion to processing your data, this book contains best practices on building an end-to-end analytics pipeline on the cloud by leveraging popular concepts such as machine learning and deep learning. By the end of this book, you will have a better understanding of cloud analytics as a concept as well as a practical know-how of its implementation
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

A bit more about cloud computing and migration


What began as cloud storage soon extended to incorporate services, for example, Software as a Service (SaaS), which have developed into a stack of business-profitable aaS models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Database as a Service (DBaaS), Data as a Service (DaaS), Backup as a Service (BaaS), and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).

Close to the previous decade and a half, cloud services have quickly turned out to be a standout among the most noteworthy advancements in IT. The publicity encompassing cloud services made look as though all of an organization's IT assets ought to be immediately moved to the cloud. There is no disproving that, in specific cases, cloud services can be extremely advantageous. Be that as it may, cloud relocation maybe doesn't suit some cases.

Cloud may not be ideal for everything, but without a doubt it is important for everybody from numerous points of view. I foresee...