BigDataFr recommends: Big Data’s Relentless Pace Exposes Old Tensions and New Risks in the Enterprise

[…] Over the past two week, we’ve explored some of the difficulties that enterprises have experienced in trying to adopt the Hadoop stack of big data technologies. One area that demands further attention is how the rapid pace of development of open source data science technology in general, and the new business opportunities it unlocks, is simultaneously exposing old fault lines between business and IT while opening them to new risks.

Events like Cloudera and O’Reilly‘s recent Strata + Hadoop World conference and Hortonworks‘ upcoming DataWorks Summit 2017 are showcases for the burgeoning market for big data technology. While Hadoop itself may not be the center of gravity that it once was, there is no doubt that we’re in the midst of a booming marketplace for distributed computing technologies and data science techniques, and it’s not going to let up anytime soon.[…]

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By Alex Woodle
Source: datamini.com