Cloud platforms, from IaaS and DBaaS to petabyte-scale cloud warehousing services such as Google BigQuery provide an ever-growing set of options for optimizing the host environment for data warehouses of any architecture and size. The management of infrastructure, elastic scalability and pricing models of cloud offerings can make these options compelling, especially for warehouses of particularly large scale. Myers-Holum can assist with navigating considerations of performance, cost, reliability and security for including cloud platforms in your mix for data warehouse deployments.