8K Miles' Response to RFP - NCPA

Using this framework helps organizations make intelligent decisions by answering questions that
arise in day-to-day operations. Executives are no longer limited by information in their
databases. Using computing power at their disposal, they can populate their databases on demand
with relevant data to answer the question and get answers in minutes.
8KMiles data analytics framework will tailor Region 14 and NCPA members’ data pipeline by
combining the AWS Hadoop offering (EMR), Hadoop ecosystem tools available such as Hive,
and new-generation Extract Transform and Load (ETL) tools like Talend to populate AWS
Relational Database Service (RDS) and AWS DynamoDB, a highly scalable, fully managed
NoSQL database service. The AWS RDS can be Oracle, Microsoft SQL, or MySQL database
that the existing Business Intelligence and Analytics tools in the customer environment can
consume, or 8KMiles can build customized dashboards from data in RDS and DynamoDB.
8KMiles will work with the domain experts within Region 14 and NCPA member organizations
to build algorithms that enable using the massively parallel computing mechanism employed by
EMR. In practical terms, a problem that would require a thousand hours of computation can be
completed in one hour with thousand machines, ten hours using hundred machines, or hundred
hours using ten machines. This allows Region 14 and NCPA members to process large amounts
of data and make decisions quicker by paying the same amount for using a thousand machines
for one hour and getting an answer to a large problem in one hour. This can be further reduced to
minutes by adding more compute capacity if needed.
As Region 14 and NCPA members embrace Big Data solutions to improve their service, they
will often need to use existing data in their data centers for this purpose. Access to this data must
be secure and reliable with low latency between transfers. The AWS Direct Connect offering
provides a means for this; however, the service is only available at selected colocation facilities
with which AMS has partnerships. Region 14 and NCPA members that wish to employ this