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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

Preparing a plan for moving to cloud computing


As we discussed previously, before you prepare a plan for moving to cloud, it is critical to think about your real business prerequisites. We will now have a quick recap of a few of the essential prerequisites:

  • Available/approved finances
  • Cloud deployment model—public, private, hybrid
  • Data safety and confidentiality
  • Data reinforcement
  • Dashboards and reports
  • Client accessibility
  • Data distribution and integration
  • Readiness of staff for adopting cloud computing

It is critical to do plenty of preparation and planning while wanting to meet these prerequisites, which, for the most part, run with three essential stages.

Methodology stage

It is critical for you to examine the methodology issues that you may confront. This examination is done based on:

  • Cloud computing proposal worth
  • Cloud computing methodology planning

The following image can explain strategies diagrammatically:

Cloud computing proposal worth

Here, you have to do the profound examination of the aspects...