Manoj Muniswamaiah, Tilak Agerwala and Charles Tappert, Pace University, USA

Big Data applications are used for decision making process for gaining useful insights hidden from large volume of data. They make use of cloud computing infrastructure for massive scale and complex computation which eliminates the need to maintain dedicated hardware and software resources. The relationship between big data and cloud computing is presented with focus on challenges and issues in data storage with different formats, data transformation techniques applied, data quality and business challenges associated with it. Also, some good practices which helps in big data analysis has been listed.

Big data, cloud computing, data transformation, data analysis, data warehousing