Connecting many physical objects like humans, animals, plants, smart phones, PCs, etc. equipped with sensors to the Internet generates what is called “big data.”
Big data needs smart and efficient storage.
Obviously, connected devices need mechanisms to store, process, and retrieve data.
But big data is so huge such that it exceeds the capability of commonly used hardware environments and software tools to capture, manage, and process them within an acceptable slot of time.
The emerging and developing technology of cloud computing is defined by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as an access model to an on-demand network of shared configurable computing sources such as networks, servers, warehouses, applications, and services.