Data as a cloud service-challenges and opportunities

With the advent of cloud computing there is a need to revisit our approach to data. When an application can be executing anywhere in the cloud it means that the data required by this application should be available to it wherever it's running. When we consider also the SLA of the application, requirements like latency, consistency and resiliency come into play. This calls for a new approach for handling data. An approach that will make the right data available wherever needed, whenever needed by autonomously caching, replicating, versioning, migrating, and persisting data in the cloud. In this talk we will discuss the requirements from such a service, and review some possible solutions and challenges.