Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, Inc., believes open computing initiative Hadoop has prompted some of the changes in the current IT landscape, and many of those changes will stick. Cloud storage gives users ease of deployment and flexibility, while open source offers agility and affordability.

“When you look at the Hadoop landscape as open source, it has a very quick innovation cycle and a low cost point, which opens up more avenues to data storage,” Gnau told theCUBE during Hadoop Summit 2015. “That comes in concert with the added data flying around – Hadoop, Cloud, and other technologies are coping with that and turning it into something of value.”

An appealing cost paradigm

That value comes quickly.

“In the past, when you wanted to build analytics you had to plan for it – it took time, and it had better work out,” said Gnau. “It worked out. business intelligence and analytics are defacto for any scaled-out business these days. With Hadoop, you can quickly spin something up … and do it with a cost paradigm that is appealing.”

Gnau reminded theCUBE cohosts John Furrier and George Gilbert that Hadoop is an ecosystem that plans to stay around a long time. “The orders-of-magnitude difference between service level requirements, investment required and velocity of data are so huge that there’s not going to be one thing that will manage it.”

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

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