IBM® BigInsights™ on Cloud provides Hadoop-as-a-service on IBM’s SoftLayer® global cloud infrastructure. It offers the performance and security of an on-premises deployment without the cost or complexity of managing your own infrastructure.

BigInsights is an industry standard Apache Hadoop offering that helps enterprises cost-effectively manage and analyze big data.

BigInsights on Cloud provides the following features and benefits:

• Managed operations provide 24 x 7 monitoring
• IBM Open Platform with current and stable Apache Hadoop components
• Dedicated bare metal nodes for enhanced performance, data privacy and security
• High value in-Hadoop analytics features, including Big SQL, Big Sheets, Text Analytics, Big R and Machine Learning