theCUBE Live At BigDataNYC 2014

Wrapping up their coverage of the Big Data NYC conference, Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante discussed some noteworthy patterns emerging in the Big Data enterprise landscape. As storage costs increase and budgets remain flat, enterprises are baselining data warehouse spending in favor of Hadoop experimentation. In fact, theCUBE hosts explained how practitioners are only spending 30 percent of what they used to on their data warehouse, according to Wikibon.org research. Though the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) didn’t live up to its potential, said Kelly, the jury is still out on whether Big Data and Hadoop will be able to deliver on promises.

Kelly and Vellante drew on Wikibon survey results from Kelly’s conference presentation to show that the enterprise is increasingly interested in Hadoop and Big Data:

• 1. 25 percent of surveyed Hadoop practitioners pay vendors for a subscription to their commercial distribution, which includes support. TheCUBE hosts expect this number to increase as more practitioners begin production deployments.

• 2. More than half of practitioners are past the evaluation phase in their big data deployments: 28 percent of survey respondents are conducting a pilot or proof of content and 31 percent are in production deployment.

• 3. 38 percent of respondents use NoSQL databases and 36 precent use Hadoop. These numbers are important, explained Kelly, because those to technologies are “foundational” in the “digital fabric.” Along with Cloud and Infrastructure as a Service, Hadoop is “becoming the new operating service in a data-centric world.”

• 4. 92 percent of respondents believe that Big Data analytics is more than “a buzzword.” Kelly suggested that this statistic has to do with Big Data analytics success stories, like Facebook and Google, which inspire other companies to take the phenomenon seriously.

• 5. 65 percent of Big Data practitioners who responded to the Wikibon survey said they had already shifted resources from EDW to Big Data and Hadoop. Another 35 percent said they planned to do so before the end of the year.

These stats, said Vellante, suggest the start-up world of Hadoop is quickly combining with the corporate enterprise culture. TheCUBE hosts predict companies will “operationalize” Hadoop by figuring out how to “scale it out” and address issues of privacy and security, which are necessary for the enterprise.

See the entire segment below.

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