This is a joint blog post between Nick Heudecker and Merv Adrian. It’s Strata week here in San Jose, and with that comes a flood of new announcements on products, partners and funding. Today’s big announcement came in the form of the Open Data Platform (ODP). A number of companies have signed on, but inContinue reading “Who Asked for an Open Data Platform?”
Category Archives: Industry trends
Hadoop Adoption? Moving, But Not Necessarily Forward
Gartner’s quarterly Hadoop webinar in February 2015 showed that adoption of Hadoop is not rising quite as dramatically as some might believe. It’s flat compared to Q42014. Of nearly 1200 attendees, 465 shared their thinking with us via the usual polling, and the Deployed percentage was the same. Not that surprising for only 3 months betweenContinue reading “Hadoop Adoption? Moving, But Not Necessarily Forward”
2014 in review – Thanks, WordPress!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that manyContinue reading “2014 in review – Thanks, WordPress!”
Oracle Hardware – No, The News is Not Good. (Yet.)
As an information management software analyst, I don’t spend a great deal of time looking at hardware, but when I look for a more holistic view, I occasionally check in with Gartner colleagues. Recently I had a few questions about Oracle’s hardware mix during inquiries, so I decided to check in with my colleague ErrolContinue reading “Oracle Hardware – No, The News is Not Good. (Yet.)”
Strata 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 find, typically inadequately-sized rooms were packed. Some redesign will be needed next year, because the event was huge in impact and demand will only grow. A few ofContinue reading “Strata Spark Tsunami – Hadoop World, Part One”
Hadoop Is A Recursive Acronym
Hopefully, that title got your attention. A recursive acronym – the term first appeared in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and is likely more familiar to tech folks who know Gnu – is self-referential (as in “Gnu’s not Unix.”) So how did I conclude Hadoop, whose name origin we know, fits the definition?Continue reading “Hadoop Is A Recursive Acronym”
Satya 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 conversation, lays out his vision about mobility that crosses the personal and professional: mobility of the individual and the app experiences. “Have my workContinue reading “Satya Nadella on Mobility: It’s Personal”
Microsoft’s Portfolio – A Formidable Mix
For the past few months, I’ve been Gartner’s Vendor Lead for Microsoft. For some 30 vendors, we assign a single analyst to act as a focal point for coordinating across the 1000 analysts we have when research covers that vendor. In Microsoft’s case, that has proven to be fascinating – we have some 3 dozenContinue reading “Microsoft’s Portfolio – A Formidable Mix”
Hadoop 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 data portfolio, while HP made a $50M investment in, and joined the board of, Hortonworks. These moves continue the ongoing effort by leading players. 4 ofContinue reading “Hadoop Investments Continue: Teradata, HP Jockey For Position”
Microsoft Turns the ‘Scope on SaaS
One of the more interesting conversations I had at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference this week concerned an initiative they have launched to help IT understand – and get under control – proliferating ungoverned SaaS applications. Brad Anderson, Corporate VP for Cloud and Mobility, told the 16,000 attendees that enterprises need help. “We ask themContinue reading “Microsoft Turns the ‘Scope on SaaS”