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Flashing back to the women of HadoopSummit 2015 |#HS16Dublin

The Hadoop Summit – Dublin 2016 celebrated its 10-year anniversary in Dublin, Ireland, this week, and the buzz around the event has centered on the Internet of Things (IoT) and the amount of date gathered, which has doubled since Hadoop Summit 2015, according to Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks, Inc.

This week, we look at what women in tech were talking about at last year’s event. It is interesting to see the growth of Hadoop and how the old challenges have been replaced in just one year. The women of Hadoop Summit 2015 joined John Furrier (@furrier) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about their journeys with Hadoop.

Topics from Hadoop Summit 2015

Embracing open source

Last year, Anjul Bhambhri, was vice president of Big Data and Analytics at IBM. She stopped by theCUBE to talk about IBM’s contributions to Hadoop.

“We have been on this Hadoop journey of where we embraced Hadoop five years ago. And we have done work in the Hadoop core, as well as built capabilities on top of Hadoop, like SQL on Hadoop, by bringing things like text analytics and machine learning — embracing and enabling our programmers to use the scalability of Hadoop and build algorithms that can scale for Big Data. So we definitely added value on the top. And recently there’s been a formation of the Open-Data Platform [ODP], where over a dozen industry vendors in the space joined to bring more standardization around Hadoop.

“One thing we all acknowledge is that Hadoop is not one project but multiple projects … and to get standardization around those and to get interoperability, something like ODP was needed. So we are definitely excited about that being the next step, which I feel will absolutely feel will drive more adoption and will grow the Hadoop market faster.”

SQL on Hadoop

Adriana Zubiri, program director of Big Data development at IBM Analytics, joined theCUBE to speak to IBM’s commitment to educating Hadoop users about IBM’s Big SQL.

“In the world of Big Data … we had slow adoption in the beginning and now it’s exploding. It’s hard for people to have a new mindset where you have a completely new technology, but companies need to invest in new skills. They have a lot already riding on SQL in their own companies with their warehouses. (I don’t think warehouses are going to go anywhere soon.) Obviously, there are things that Hadoop is great for, but there are all the investments they (already) have. So I think SQL really provides our customers with a very easy way to reuse their existing skills and existing applications to be able to exploit this new world of Big Data.

“There are so many vendors out there with a Big SQL solution on Hadoop. What we have done at IBM … we have been investing on SQL technology for decades, so we know how to do Big SQL, we invented it … so what could we do with Hadoop? We took all the technology we had and teach it for Hadoop.”

Orchestrating data

Donna Prlich, VP of product marketing and solutions at Pentaho, a Hitachi Data Systems Co., delivered information about a Pentaho study to theCUBE cohosts. And as you listen, you will hear some familiar themes from this year’s event.

“One of the keys to Pentaho data integration is that if you are thinking about ingesting data, for instance into Hadoop, it’s not just about getting the data in. Pentaho is going to actually allow you to cleanse and transform that data and provide a level of governance. And as you start to think about Hadoop in an environment where maybe you have data in an enterprise data warehouse, the transformations that go on, where you want to be able to blend data together and the orchestration of all that is all managed through Pentaho integration.

“So if you think about starting back at the data at the source, and then through those different data stores that I mentioned, Pentaho’s going to manage all of that and provide the governance around it, which is really what’s important.”

Be sure to check out of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Hadoop Summit 2016 – Dublin. And make sure to join in during theCUBE’s live coverage during the event by joining in on CrowdChat.

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