How can open-source technology scale for big data management in the enterprise, and how is the famed Hadoop platform holding up as an open-source method for big data management? Hadoop finds itself at a crossroads in light of increased complexity and growing competition from Apache Spark, which is set to dominate the big data landscape by 2022, according to research by Wikibon Research (Wikibon is owned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE).

Looking to answer these questions and others, SiliconANGLE is at DataWorks Summit 2017, taking place in San Jose, California, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE. (* Disclosure below.)

The three-day DataWorks Summit, sponsored by Hortonworks Inc. and Yahoo Inc., will focus on how open-source technologies can be used to leverage data on-premise and in the cloud.

Forrester Research Inc. forecasts companies will spend nearly $800 million on Hadoop and related services in 2017. Apache Hadoop’s first update in two years took place earlier this month with improvements focused on security and cloud. While most users continue to run Hadoop on on-premise in their own data centers, Apache Hadoop 2.8 looks to focus on the growing number of users that choose to run the framework on cloud infrastructures.

Hadoop developer Hortonworks beat analysts expectations when it reported first-quarter revenue of $56 million, up 35 percent from a year ago. During the earnings announcement in May, Rob Bearden, chief executive officer of Hortonworks, focused less on Hadoop and more on the company’s diversification, including its cloud services on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services platforms. Ahead of this week’s summit, Hortonworks unveiled a new pricing scheme encouraging data migrations between on-prem and AWS environments.

The scaling up of open-source software has proved difficult for companies due to it being new and the stiff competition from the likes of MapR Technologies Inc., Amazon Web Services, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Cloudera Inc., another big player in the market, suffered plummeting shares last week following its first earnings report since going public in April.

Hortonworks, however, announced that it expects to break even on cash flow by the fourth quarter of this year due to improving operating margins and better expense control.

Keynote speakers at DataWorks Summit include Hortonworks executives Rob Bearden; Scott Gnau, chief technology officer; and Arun Murthy, founder and vice president of engineering.  

Other keynote speakers include Paul Zikopoulos, vice president of big data cognitive systems at IBM; Sriram Rao, partner group manager at Microsoft Corp.; Bill Schmarzo, chief technology officer of big data services at Dell EMC; Ron Bodkin, serial entrepreneur leveraging emerging technologies focused on artificial intelligence at Teradata Corp.; Paul Sonderegger, big data strategist leading Oracle’s work on data capital.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at DataWorks Summit, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage for day one starts today at 11:00 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. PDT.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from DataWorks Summit on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from DataWorks Summit, which runs until June 15, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Tuesday, June 13

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE includes DataWorks Summit keynote speakers Rob Bearden and Scott Gnau.

Others guest include Asad Mahmood, open source analytics technical evangelist of federal healthcare at IBM; Joe Goldberg, innovation evangelist at BMC Software Inc.; Tendü Yogurtçu, chief technology officer at Syncsort Inc.; and Bill Schmarzo, chief technology officer, Dell EMC Services Big Data.

Tuesday’s lineup also includes Madhu Kochar, vice president, analytics, product development and client success at IBM; Jamie Engesser, vice president of product management at Hortonworks; Linton Ward, distinguished engineer, Power Systems OpenPOWER solutions at IBM.

Wednesday, June 14

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE include DataWorks Summit keynote speakers Arun Murthy and Ron Bodkin. As well as other HortonWorks executives Rajnish Verma, president and chief operating officer; and Nadeem Asghar, field chief technology officer and global head technical alliances and partner engineering.

Other guests include Alex Chen, director of storage at IBM; Bruno Aziza, chief marketing officer at AtScale Inc.; Itamar Ankorion, chief marketing officer at Attunity Inc.; and Arvind Rajagopalan, director of global technology services at Verizon Communications Inc.

Live stream of DataWorks Summit

If you are unable to attend the DataWorks Summit in San Jose, there will be a live stream of the summit on the official event page.

The opening keynote starts at 9:00 a.m. PDT today.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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