When Arun Murthy, cofounder of Hortonworks, Inc., created the company, he could not imagine how far Hadoop would go. The early days were focused on technology, but today the goal is to help customers solve business problems with data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is the driving force.

At the Hadoop Summit – Dublin 2016, Murthy sat down with John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about the evolution of Hadoop and where the future opportunities in technology lie.

The driving force of innovation is IoT

Murthy provided three reasons for the big push to IoT. First, he said that it is cheaper to move data around from its origin to where it rests. Secondly, advances in technology make it feasible to store tech at scale. And lastly, it is now cheaper to produce hardware. “It’s all the right point and time,” he said.

According to Murthy, more data is triggered outside of the data center. As a company, it is important to Hortonworks to offer a complete end-to-end solution. He believes there is a need to capture data at the point of origin and then perform the analytics and push it back to the edge.

Appreciate your data

The philosophy at Hortonworks is that every app is a data app. As an enterprise, if you are not able to manage data and use it to take action, you are doing something less than ideal.

“Data is the most tangible asset companies have,” Murthy stated. He said that he sees more appreciation for data on the enterprise level, but managing data is a skill every company needs to learn.

Community success factor

The value of open source is considered a factor in achieving great results. Murthy pointed to the Apache Atlas project to convey his point. He explained how Hortonworks was using Atlas for a year and a half, and then IBM began supporting and contributing to the project. Murthy said he is a big fan of the community model.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more 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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