2013 is the year of advancing Hadoop implementation from prototype to production. David Richards, CEO and Jagane Sundar, CTO & VP of Engineering of Big Data at WANdisco made their companies predictions clear when they sat down with theCube hosts John Ferrier and Dave Vellante at Strata this week.  The business values are high with this fulfillment of the disruption by 2012, the year of the prototype.

At Strata WANdisco announced  the availability of its Non-Stop NameNode, what it claims is the only 100 percent uptime solution for Hadoop.  Non-Stop NameNode completely eliminates the single point of failure that risks data availability – the NameNode – which tracks the data’s location within a Hadoop cluster and coordinates client access to it.

“I think what we’re seeing is the missing 2-3 critical pieces. High availability, secondary security.  2012 was the year of the prototype, and 2013 is the year of trying to push it to production,” said Richards. Sundar added an interesting tidbit: “A little known secret is that the data wanders over time.” He went on to elaborate that with a single Hadoop solution over the entire data center, WANdisco fixes that issue.

The two gentlemen painted a picture that was adamant about the business value of removing the downtime threat. Imagine a world where you aren’t dependent on a single point of failure (data center). It truly creates a global infrastructure removing any singular point of failure. In Lehman’s terms, that means not even earthquakes nor hurricanes could create outages for business.

Food for thought: what is the total savings of business NOT lost?

See the full conversation in the video below, and be sure to check out more exclusive content from Strata 2013 on our YouTube channel.