My second day of Symposium 1:1 meetings continued the “security of big data” theme (4 of the day’s 15 conversations – usually, but not always, about HDFS-based data), with a data lake flavor. The concerns were retroactive – often driven by an internal audit. “We built it, now how do we secure it?” is aContinue reading “Symposium Notes – Day Two Jumps in the (Data) Lake”
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Symposium Notes – Day One Features Hadoop
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.Continue reading “Symposium Notes – Day One Features Hadoop”
Hadoop Project Commercial Support Tracker July 2016
There are now 15 projects supported by all 5 distributors I track, and several have had new releases since April. Kafka is the newest addition, and I believe the remaining 4-supporter offerings, Mahout and Hue, will remain unsupported by IBM, who has its own alternatives. –More–
Handicapping Hadoop Helpers – Unsupported Projects
The Apache Software Foundation has over 350 projects underway, and others are being developed in the open source community for use with (and without) the Hadoop stack. In recent posts Now, What is Hadoop? And What’s Supported? and Hadoop Projects Supported by Only One Distribution, I mapped those supported by commercial distributors. But there’s anotherContinue reading “Handicapping Hadoop Helpers – Unsupported Projects”
Microsoft in MQs – June Is Bustin’ Out
Following December 2014’s Microsoft’s Product Positions – Positive Progress, and March’s Microsoft in MQs – March On, this post updates my quarterly map of the several dozen Gartner Magic Quadrants that feature Microsoft offerings. As Microsoft nears the end of its fiscal year (and undergoes management shifts I’ll discuss in a future post) their MQ progress continues through Q2. –More inContinue reading “Microsoft in MQs – June Is Bustin’ Out”
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 that pure play Hadoop vendors had a high hill to climb. (I didn’t say so specifically, but in 2014, Gartner estimates thatContinue reading “Perspectives on Hadoop Part Two: Pausing Plans”
Perspectives on Hadoop: Procurement, Plans, and Positioning
I have the privilege of working for the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, covering information management with a strong focus for the past few years on an emerging software stack called Hadoop. In the early part of 2015, that particular technology is moving from early adopter status to early majority in its marketplaceContinue reading “Perspectives on Hadoop: Procurement, Plans, and Positioning”
Microsoft in MQs – March On
In December 2014, I posted Microsoft’s Product Positions – Positive Progress, updating my quarterly map of the several dozen Gartner Magic Quadrants that feature Microsoft offerings. Welcome to the New Year. The progress I identified then has continued through Q1, as another product improved its position in a refresh (Advanced Analytic Platforms), and another (Enterprise Integration Platform as aContinue reading “Microsoft in MQs – March On”
Hadoop Questions from Recent Webinar Span Spectrum
This is a joint post authored with Nick Heudecker There were many questions asked after the last quarterly Hadoop webinar, and Nick and I have picked a few that were asked several times to respond to here. –More on my Gartner blog—
Which SQL on Hadoop? Poll Still Says “Whatever” But DBMS Providers Gain
Since Nick Heudecker and I began our quarterly Hadoop webinars, we have asked our audiences what they expected to do about SQL several times, first in January 2014. With 164 respondents in that survey, 32% said “we’ll use what our existing BI tool provider gives us,” reflecting the fact that most adopters seem not to wantContinue reading “Which SQL on Hadoop? Poll Still Says “Whatever” But DBMS Providers Gain”