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Familiar with SaaS? If not, let us give you a brief introduction. The easier spoken breakdown of Software-as-a-Service, SaaS is a distribution model that d
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With SaaS, many of the challenges associated with the traditional software distribution model are eliminated right off the bat, essentially making a big data deployment much less of a hassle to deal with.
In an SaaS arrangement, a service provider:
1. hosts the software and delivers it to you over the web.
2. handles all the grueling maintenance aspects that come along with it behind the scenes.
Microsoft's Windows Azure HDInsight is the perfect example of such an application.
Right now, big data applications are limited in comparison to other fields, but there will surely be more variety available soon.