The “Big Three” are all in on big data / predictive modeling

Here’s a quick summary on the technology behind next big thing – machine learning

All three major public cloud providers have connected their core storage services, and one or more of their database products, to the machine learning offerings:

• Amazon Machine Learning connects to S3, Redshift and the MySQL flavor of its Relational Database Service (RDS).
• Google Prediction API can read data from Google Cloud Storage, and BigQuery.
• Microsoft supports both its Table and Blob storage services as data sources, as well as SQL Database, Hive tables in Hadoop and both OData feeds and flat files pointed to by a valid Internet URL.

Full Story: Machine learning is the next frontier in Big Data innovation. And the cloud is the next frontier within that frontier. By Andrew Brust for Big on Data