Learning The Ropes
This is my first post on the Gartner blog network. It feels a little odd to be posting after nearly 3 months away – my old blog at www.itmarketstrategy.com was a frequently updated place. I hope to...
View ArticleBeyond Moneyball: How Organizations Can Use Collaborative Decision Making to...
Having just seen the movie myself, I was delighted to receive this guest post from my colleague Rita Sallam, a Research Director here who focuses on Analytics, BI, and Performance Management. It’s a...
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Hadoop and DI – A Platform Is Not A Solution
“Hadoop people” and “RDBMS people” – including some DBAs who have contacted me recently – clearly have different ideas about what Data Integration is. And both may differ from what Ted Friedman...
View ArticleHadoop Investments Continue: Teradata, HP Jockey For Position
Interest from the leading players continues to drive investment in the Hadoop marketplace. This week Teradata made two acquisitions – Revelytix and Hadapt – that enrich its already sophisticated big...
View ArticleSatya Nadella on Mobility: It’s Personal
At Garner Symposium, Drue Reeves and I had the opportunity to interview Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Here’s a brief clip from the closing. I’m summarizing and Satya, passionate as he was throughout the...
View ArticleStrata Spark Tsunami – Hadoop World, Part One
New York’s Javits Center is a cavernous triumph of form over function. Giant empty spaces were everywhere at this year’s empty-though-sold-out Strata/Hadoop World, but the strangely-numbered, hard to...
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Perspectives on Hadoop Part Two: Pausing Plans
By Merv Adrian and Nick Heudecker In the first post in this series , I looked at the size of revenue streams for RDBMS software and maintenance/support and noted that they amount to $33B, pointing out...
View ArticleLearning The Ropes
This is my first post on the Gartner blog network. It feels a little odd to be posting after nearly 3 months away – my old blog at www.itmarketstrategy.com was a frequently updated place. I hope to...
View ArticleBeyond Moneyball: How Organizations Can Use Collaborative Decision Making to...
Having just seen the movie myself, I was delighted to receive this guest post from my colleague Rita Sallam, a Research Director here who focuses on Analytics, BI, and Performance Management. It’s a...
View ArticleSatya Nadella on Mobility: It’s Personal
At Garner Symposium, Drue Reeves and I had the opportunity to interview Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Here’s a brief clip from the closing. I’m summarizing and Satya, passionate as he was throughout the...
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Perspectives on Hadoop Part Two: Pausing Plans
By Merv Adrian and Nick Heudecker In the first post in this series , I looked at the size of revenue streams for RDBMS software and maintenance/support and noted that they amount to $33B, pointing out...
View ArticleHadoop FAQs – April Webinar Q&A
Nick Heudecker and I received numerous questions during our April Hadoop webinar with several hundred attendees, and we have summarized and answered them below. How can Hadoop-Spark interface with...
View ArticleStop Talking About “Hadoop”
As an analyst, I get many inquiries about Hadoop. Few of them bear much resemblance to the ones I took 5 or 6 years ago. The investor inquiries are similar – they still think Hadoop is a “market” and...
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August 2020 Hadoop Distribution Apache Project Tracker
Welcome to my co-author, Gartner analyst Sanjeev Mohan It’s been an eventful 6 months since Merv published the last of these trackers. The Hadoop ecosystem is far from dead, as many pundits predicted....
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