Let’s face it: Big Data solutions aren’t always enterprise-ready. Joe Goldberg, a member of the Solutions Marketing team at BMC Software, Inc., talked with theCUBE at Hadoop Summit 2015 about how his team is leveraging decades of experience in IT to offer better Big Data options.

“BMC is coming at Hadoop or the Big Data market from the enterprise perspective,” Goldberg told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media team. “We’re kind of a traditional IT management company. The solutions that we’re talking about here, we’ve had them out in the field with thousands of customers for over 30 years.”

Accelerating the delivery of Big Data applications

Goldberg said BMC has added support for Hadoop, bringing with it the ability to accelerate the delivery of Big Data applications and deliver them in a more robust, operationally ready state than they are today.

But how does BMC turn 30 years of experience to its advantage rather than allowing it to become a liability?

“Just like in the traditional technology space, when it comes to Big Data and the Hadoop market, a good chunk of that work that’s being done has to be done in batch and has to be managed that way,” Goldberg stated. “And the tools that are available in the existing environment, with the ecosystem, I would say are relatively limited. And people have to do a lot of heavy lifting to get that integrated with the rest of their technology stack.”

Goldberg continued, “And when they’ve finished building their applications, which are now being delivered 10, 20, 30 percent faster than they would otherwise, when they get into an operational state, they run more reliably, they provide more governance, they provide enterprise capabilities that come for free while they’re being able to actually build those applications more quickly.”

For Goldberg, the advances of Big Data fit into a much larger narrative and longer timeline, and BMC uses that to its advantage. “We started way back on the mainframe,” he said. “When distributed systems came along, we added that support. When ERPs came along, we added that support. So, I would say that the analogue between the sort of traditional evolution of technology and what’s happening in Hadoop is very similar, but what’s happening in the Hadoop or Big Data market is just an incredibly compressed timeframe.”

He added, “We’re seeing exactly the same kind of patterns. But now instead of playing out over 10, 20, 30 years, it’s playing out over 10, 20, 30 months.”

Bringing together Big Data and traditional workloads using new tech

BMC wants to enable IT ops, as well as business users, to bring together Big Data with their traditional workloads using new technology. And in an effort to simplify those advances, BMC has set up Control-M (BMC’s workload automation software) so customers can now add support for new technologies as long as they have an application and interface.

If a customer wants to add, say, Flume (a distributed data collection service) or Kafka (an open-source message broker) to their core Hadoop distribution, Goldberg said, “We have that core platform with very rich functionality that already provides that support. So, now, instead of having to do all that integration on their own, they literally pull from a palette and drag and drop a workflow in seconds instead of having to build all of that on their own.”

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

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