Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks, Inc., which develops and supports Apache Hadoop, sees the hard work of the past few years coming into fruition. The market is on the brink of a positive explosion, theCUBE cohost John Furrier believes, which explains Bearden’s excitement.

“Hadoop has crossed over to become an enterprise-viable data platform,” he said during an interview with theCUBE during Hadoop Summit 2015. “The architecture can now address multiple kinds of use case and work loads, and the ecosystem is thriving. It’s transforming the IT landscape and how data is going to be managed for the next 15 years.”

Big changes in the data layer

Given the innovations in Hadoop and the evolution of the entire data architecture, Bearden sees big changes in the data layer.

“Not only is the data layer going to replatform away from the standard silo transactional systems, but Hadoop creates a central architecture where all workload types can come together and bring all data sets,” he said. “Now, you can deploy data across any deployment architecture that fits the workload the best. So you get not only a modern data architecture, but also a modern deployment architecture that will make it transparent where that data is on which deployment architecture.”

Hadoop also has the potential to influence the enterprise on a fundamental level.

“Hadoop allows the enterprise to change its business model from being reactive post-transaction to being interactive pre-transaction,” said Bearden. “Those next-generation apps can be interactive. There’s so much downstream opportunity that it’s going to happen, and in a very big way.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Hadoop Summit 2015.