![](https://d15shllkswkct0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/08/PLACEHOLDER-SiliconANGLE.png)
![](https://d15shllkswkct0.cloudfront.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/08/PLACEHOLDER-SiliconANGLE.png)
Big Data adoption is typically a year-long journey for enterprises, according to Mani Chhabra, CEO, Cloudwick, Inc. In his live interview at BigDataSV with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Kelly and Jeff Frick, the initial phase in adoption is where the beginnings of a platform are installed, and the enterprises can see the value in Big Data, “then you start building the data pipelines” and finally when the data available is available in the platform, it can be be analyzed, transformed and taken to the visualization level,” he explained. The first phase takes about a month, building data pipelines three to six months, and the final stage another few months.
Asked whether the companies understood the value of Big Data, Chhabra said that the Fortune 1000 gets it, “the challenge is beyond Fortune 1000.” He added that Big Data adoption will be driven by the cloud. “The enterprise is getting really comfortable in the cloud,” despite security challenges, he said, adding there have been Hadoop or Cassandra workloads moved into the cloud throughout 2014. In terms of buying Big Data solutions, the line of business is pushing it, not IT. “It is the data scientist market now,” the technology has already been built, Chhabra said.
When asked to comment on the just-announced Open Data Platform initiative, Chhabra said “I don’t think the industry needs it.” It’s more of a marketing move, he said. “It’s extremely difficult to navigate in the big data journey. Putting in one more element will just create more confusion.”
Check back here for the full interview, and find even more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of BigDataSV here.
THANK YOU