InfoObjects, Inc., a technology consulting company, took a risk when it began offering Apache Spark training and recommending Spark for enterprise data and other sectors.

“We took a big bet on Spark,” said InfoObjects CEO Rishi Yadav, who spoke with John Furrier and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during BigDataNYC 2015. “We started getting inbound leads, which was the biggest proof that it was working. The moment we focused on Spark, business has been really good.”

The Spark Cookbook

Yadav recently authored the Spark Cookbook, an eBook that contains more than 60 “recipes” that cover Spark Core, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, MLlib and GraphX Libraries.

Yadav understands as well as most how Spark has simplified Hadoop’s initiatives. “With Spark, in one call you can read and load the data,” he said. “But the database is also a small subset. You can access petabytes of data with the same low latency.”

Yadav also noted that clients can get machine data in real time. However, research firm Gartner, Inc. reports that more than 75 percent of companies with plans to invest in Big Data don’t know if the ROI will be positive or negative. “We go to the client in a vendor-neutral way and give advice on Big Data strategy,” Yadav said of InfoObjects. “Companies that used to hire us only for troubleshooting are involving us early on now.”

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

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