Lockheed Martin quickly migrated its SAP Suite on HANA to the AWS Cloud, gaining business agility and cost savings and ensuring compliance with key industry data protection regulations. The organization is a developer of aerospace and defense systems for the U.S. military and global U.S. allies. Lockheed Martin is running its SAP Suite on HANA on AWS for test and development workloads, utilizing Amazon EC2 […]

For most organizations, the notion of digitizing your business has  become a question of “when” rather than “if” — the age of digital business is here to stay. Many businesses are looking to SAP’s innovative solution portfolio to play a central role in helping them to achieve this goal, in particular SAP S/4HANA, SAP’s next generation business suite built on SAP HANA that serves as a powerful […]

Companies of all sizes can take advantage of the many benefits provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to achieve business agility, cost savings, and high availability by running their SAP environments on the AWS Cloud.This guide is intended for SAP customers and partners who want to learn about the benefits and options for running SAP solutions on AWS, or who […]

Organizations are collecting and analyzing increasing amounts of data making it difficult for traditional on-premises solutions for data storage, data management, and analytics to keep pace. Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier provide an ideal storage solution for data lakes. They provide options such as a breadth and depth of integration with traditional big data analytics tools as well as innovative […]

“Big data” is an idea as much as a particular methodology or technology, yet it’s an idea that is enabling powerful insights, faster and better decisions, and even business transformations across many industries. In general, big data can be characterized as an approach to extracting insights from very large quantities of structured and unstructured data from varied sources at a […]

As easy as it is to get swept up by the hype surrounding big data, it’s just as easy for organizations to become discouraged by the challenges they encounter while implementing a big data initiative.Concerns regarding big data skill sets (and the lack thereof), security, the unpredictability of data, unsustainable costs, and the need to make a business case can bring a big data initiative to a screeching halt.

Data Lake is a new and increasingly popular architecture to store and analyze massive volumes and heterogeneous types of data.

451 conducted six in depth interviews with Big Data users whose primary deployment is cloud based. These users were sourced from customer lists provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). 451 Research analyzed the results of these interviews and, combined with our ongoing customer and market analysis, created this report.