Four Drivers for the Geocloud #GWF

Steve Hagan, VP of Development, Server Technology, Oracle, discussed platforms issues for the development of geocloud at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad. He identified four global drivers for geospatial cloud computing:

• Big data - terabytes and petabytes of data
  • Sensors, RFID, LiDAR, etc.
• Big Software
  • Spatially enable all applications: ERP, CRM, BI
• Real time Analytics
  • Big value from fastest response – streams and events
  • Tracking in real time and predicting where people, or payloads will be
  • BI in real time
• Big hardware
  • Cloud platforms
  • Massively parallel data base machines

And scalability is needed to support all of the above.