Adopting “as a service” for Data Science

I recently wrote a blog about Jupyter Notebook as a service and this brought up lots of questions from my peers. I would like to take a moment to address one that I think is important. What business challenges initiated this project?

What did we solve for customer zero? We solved the challenge where central data sets were shared across hundreds of resources between multiple Geos with little control, and secondly low utilization on central infrastructure and overutilization on user infrastructure. They had challenges where many researchers were straining the…