Gartner Symposium is always exciting, challenging and stimulating for analysts; we get to interact with many organizations in a brief time during 1on1 meetings scheduled based on our coverage. It offers an fascinating snapshot of what is on people’s minds – enough so that they have traveled to a conference in part to have that discussion.
Today, October 17, 2016, was the first full day of the 2016 Orlando Symposium and over half of my meetings were about Hadoop.