In March, Intel announced that the company would exit the big data analytics software market after investing resources and several years into development of its own Apache Hadoop* distribution. What may have come as an even bigger surprise was the substantial equity ($740 million) and intellectual property investment in Cloudera, provider of the most popular Hadoop* software version…
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…