The Future of Cloud Data: Challenges and Research Opportunities

Abstract

The last several years have seen the creation of hundreds of billions of dollars in market value ? including the largest software IPO of all time ? centered around one technology category: cloud data. While cloud data is not new, the rate of adoption across almost every industry and the associated pace of development around all aspects of cloud data (from pipelines to extract-load-transform (ELT) tools to storage and analytics) are unprecedented. In this talk, I'll present a research-oriented perspective on the future of cloud data that combines my experiences as an academic at Stanford and as a startup founder and CEO at Sisu Data. My goal is to provide an overview of the seismic changes in the cloud data landscape that--in my opinion--have yet to receive sufficient attention from research, and to highlight several tantalizing research opportunities in systems and databases that result.