Rolf Tesmer has weighed in with his thoughts on the “Data Platform”:
What this has meant is that innovation – in particular in the Azure Public Cloud, ISV’s, new data services/products, and new data related infrastructure – has accelerated dramatically and changed the very definitions of what was previously accepted as comprising the “Data Platform”.
Nowadays when I talk to customers about the “Data Platform” it encompasses a range of services across a mix of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. The decision of which data service to deploy now comes down to matching the business case technical requirements with the capability of a purpose built cloud service – as opposed to (in the past) trying to fit an obvious NoSQL use case into a traditional RDBMS platform.
I now see the “New Data Platform” as much broader than ever before and includes many other “non-traditional” data services…
Cf. Eugene Meidinger (who started this) and me (who exacerbated this). This is an area ripe for consideration.
Someone needs to make this a T-SQL Tuesday topic.