The Big Data and Hadoop markets are seeing more consolidation, and the trend is showing across the industry. In their opening segment to BigDataSV, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly outlined the latest announcements in the Hadoop space and future trends around consolidation and innovation.

With Cloudera, Inc. reaching 100 million dollars in revenue and Pivotal announcing its open data platform along with open sourcing their entire Big Data suite of products, Kelly said there was “some consolidation in terms of the different players” in the market.

“We’re seeing this market mature, and that’s a good sign.” Kelly continued. Apart from the large companies and the startups with “Big Data built in their DNA,” in the big middle there is “not a lot of action happening in this space,” Kelly explained, adding that even “some of the early adopters are struggling to make Big Data work. “

Kelly stated that after a first stage where “a lot of the early deployments in the enterprise were focused on cost savings from an IT perspective,” the market has entered a second phase, with major factions around the Open Data Platform and Intel, Cloudera and even Amazon on the other side. The third wave is going to bring continued consolidation and more acquisitions in the Hadoop space in particular. “The innovation isn’t going to stop, and that’s because of the open source community.” There will be “new applications, and specific applications around the Internet of Things and industrial data,” Kelly said.

Commenting on the market’s many niche startups, Kelly said that “Big Data requires more of a platform approach, there are a lot of moving parts. Most enterprises can’t bring together these tools” into their own system, so they are looking into a one stop shop for their Big Data platform.

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