The document discusses the rise of Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) and how recent technological advancements have enabled its emergence. It provides a brief history of Hadoop and how improvements in networking, storage, virtualization and containers have addressed earlier limitations. It defines BDaaS and describes the public cloud and on-premises deployment models. Finally, it highlights how BlueData's software platform can deliver an integrated BDaaS solution both on-premises and across multiple public clouds including AWS.