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The presentation I summarized was entitled Cloud Computing and your Data Warehouse by Todd Papaioannou a VP Architecture and Emerging Technologies, http://www.slideshare.net/drluckyspin/cloud-computing-and-your-data-warehouse .

The presentation discussed cloud computing, gred computing, utility computing, and buzzwords.  The author defined cloud computing as “a mechanism for delivering scalable business services that execute on a decentralized computing fabric composed of commodity software and hardware”.  Some benefits described with using cloud computing included:

• Faster, because the infastructure is on demand, the ability to use snapshot (clone, go and repeat)
• Cheaper-reduces capital needs and the barrier to entry is lower
• Better-focuses on core business

The author discussed the idea of private clouds;  which is the use of clouds for internal virtualization.  Private clouds are excellent for sensitive date, provide better performance, and allow for easier environmental control.

An alternative use for clouds, known as Teradata software was also discussed throughout the presentation.  The author gave examples of how Teradata could be used.  Teradata allows for self serive provisioning, self service data management, web based download of data, and automated data governance.  Some of the benefits of  Teradata including: testing, porting, cloud backup, expanded market,  and faster POCs.