There are many reasons companies are moving to the cloud. Some of the benefits include more agile and scalable development and simplified administration/management of environments with reduced operational overhead. However, before you can take advantage of the benefits of cloud, you must successfully move your analytic ecosystem there.

The purpose of this paper is to provide you with best practice tips and resources to help you get the most out of your analytic ecosystem in the cloud. We’ll do this in 3 ways:

• By pointing out common pitfalls we’ve seen organizations make when moving to the cloud, and how to avoid them.
• Providing specific tips to help you optimize the performance of analytic jobs in your new cloud environment.
• Show an example of how customers are starting to combine traditional data with data in cloud storage to get the best possible answers to their business questions.