It’s no secret that many IT professionals in large enterprises look down at public clouds — they don’t consider them reliable, secure or safe. But that perception may be shifting, at least when it comes to big data workloads.

A new report released this week by Gigaom Research finds that 53 percent of large enterprises are either already leveraging public cloud resources for enterprise big data analytic needs (28 percent) or are planning to do so (25 percent). Only 13 percent of respondents say they would only use private data centers for all analytic processes.

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