Hadoop At Once Disrupts and Compliments Traditional Approaches

Despite the apparent contradiction, Hadoop and other emerging Big Data approaches are at the same time complementary to and disruptive to established data warehousing and business intelligence practices in the enterprise. I recently spoke with my colleague Stu Miniman about this and other findings from Wikibon’s Q2 2014 Big Data Analytics Survey in the below Cube […]

The Challenges of Enabling Low-cost Enterprise Cloud Storage Services

Executive Summary The question addressed is how to provide 80% of applications with storage at 50% of the cost. A key IT imperative is to reduce the total cost of internal computing (CAPEX and OPEX) and improve service times to the lines-of-business in order to be competitive with best-of-breed public cloud options. Enterprises are actively […]