I’ve heard some good competitive claims in my career, but none compare to those I’ve been privy to since I’ve been in the Hadoop market. From unforeseen customer growth to claims of CAGRs that are simply unheard of, there’s no shortage of humorous moments on any given day. Most recently, there have been some very…
By Shawn Dolley, Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy, Appfluent Crossing the Chasm to Peak Savings How I Saved My Company Millions—Part One discussed what the majority of large companies face in regards to data, analytic platforms, and evolution toward Hadoop. Most large companies moving along the path to Hadoop get stuck when they need to decide which…
By Shawn Dolley, Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy, Appfluent The Pathway to Multi-Million Dollar IT Savings Every 30 terabytes of new data warehouse capacity required can cost an organization as much as $2M to $4M in additional investment. IT budgets for analytics have grown into the millions—even for medium-sized businesses. But companies that make the move to…
Apache Hadoop has quickly evolved beyond simple storage and batch processing to enable customers to interact with all their data in diverse ways – including interactive SQL, enterprise search, advanced analytics, and using a variety of 3rd party partner solutions – on a common open source data platform. This is very powerful – and is changing…
By: Doug Moran, Co-Founder and Product Manager, Big Data at Pentaho As the first analytics vendor to announce support for Hadoop in May 2010, we became very familiar quickly with another rising vendor in the big data space that shared the same open source heritage, Cloudera. From sponsoring the first Hadoop World (and every Hadoop…