Zaloni, Inc., a provider of enterprise data lake management solutions, has witnessed Big Data evolve from a fascinating “science project” to a mature market.

The Durham, North Carolina-based company, which recently raised its first round of funding, has use-cases in many major industries. CEO Ben Sharma says that these case studies show how much confidence the enterprise has in Big Data.

Sharma noted that one Telco operator took a data lake generated in its environment and made it available to its smart city. “That smart city could use the data more efficiently,” Sharma said. “The Telco company knew from the get-go that they couldn’t do this in a traditional data platform. They had to put a big data environment in place.”

Sharma said that other Telco companies could potentially replicate this company’s process.

Both Sharma and Tony Fisher, Zaloni’s SVP of business development and strategy, spoke with Jeff Frick (@jefffrick) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE media team, during the BigDataSV 2016 event in San Jose, California, where theCUBE is celebrating #BigDataWeek, including news and events from the #StrataHadoop conference. Both Sharma and Fisher noted Big Data’s forward momentum.

“It’s very exciting to see the maturity of the whole ecosystem,” Sharma said. While Fisher added, “As analytics comes more to the forefront, the idea of data management is coming to the forefront.”

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of BigDataSV 2016. And make sure to weigh in during theCUBE’s live coverage at the event by joining in on CrowdChat.

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