A recent Gartner research survey on cloud adoption revealed that more than 80% of respondents using the public cloud were using more than one Cloud Service Provider (CSP)1. To address this multi-cloud reality, Google Cloud has announced BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud analytics solution that enables customers to bring the power of BigQuery to data stored in Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure (coming soon).
Kubernetes Driving Google Cloud
Kubernetes is increasingly being used with big data deployments. This trend is driving more big data apps to move to GCP, which offers homegrown support for Kubernetes. To make these workloads simpler and cheaper, there’s a need for a new solution for managing data workloads on Google Cloud Dataproc. With GCP’s CAGR estimated to grow by 64% CAGR through 2021, the cloud is now clearly a three-horse race.