Over the last months I’ve been having conversations with a lot of Hadoop users and developers. I’m glad to see that everyone wants to run Hadoop in production. Most of the practitioners also realize that, although Hadoop can scale, there are no clear guidelines that describe how to scale up/out Hadoop from very small to very large. Continue reading “Designing for scalability with the Dell | Hadoop solution”
Year: 2011
OSCON 2011 Session: Hadoop – Enterprise Data Warehouse Integration
Last Monday, July 25th, I gave a presentation at OSCON about the integration between Hadoop and the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
The session was well attended. The dialog and the exchange of opinions was very good. The conversations continued after the session which, to me, shows that Big Data management is top of many practitioners’ mind.
I very much enjoyed the dialog. Also learned few things! Thanks O’Reilly for another successful OSCON! Continue reading “OSCON 2011 Session: Hadoop – Enterprise Data Warehouse Integration”
Big Data Analytics Challenges in Enterprise
The adoption of Big Data Analytics in the Enterprise can deliver huge benefits but also presents equally important challenges. Adopting Big Data Analytics is both an opportunity and a concern. Several examples are in order: Continue reading “Big Data Analytics Challenges in Enterprise”