New Joyent Service Offers Analytics Without Having To Move Data
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is really hard to move. It becomes pretty much intractable as it
increases in mass. Sure it can be pulled out, but that takes
time and bandwidth and incurs a host of costs typically
associated with using a cloud service. To really get the most of
all that stored data, it’s increasingly apparent that moving it
is not really a good idea.  Joyent’s new Manta Storage Service
puts the compute together with the data in the cloud where it
can be processed in one place. The compute is available directly
on the object store, meaning that the data can be queried
immediately without having to manage all the underlying
infrastructure.  The new storage allows customers to analyze log
data, financials and other data-intensive functions without
moving data into separate clusters, which can take hours
depending on the amount of data needed to be processed. Services
like Amazon Web Services, by con