Big Data — A Darwinian Challenge

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

Much has been said about the imminent demise of Hadoop. Cloud was going to be be the next big thing, but the acquisition of Tableau, Looker can potentially accelerate solutions as opposed to platforms. It’s going to be large scale movement into the cloud to take advantage of cloud infrastructure & services and get business outcomes faster. MapR is now part of HPE and Cloudera, is now bringing up CDP, a cloud first data platform. The tip of the spear — is pointing us in a new direction.

However, large scale data migration challenges favour a hybrid data infrastructure for the next few years.

The talent bar to manage data operations has never been higher. Businesses are in a race in their domains to unlock the value of data and breakout. IT leaders are facing stark questions:

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IT Leaders are challenged to lay out operational strategies that lock step with business goals, and should consider the following in their roadmap:

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Thoughts and trends on data observability

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