What was BIG at Hadoop Summit 2015

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

At this month’s Hadoop Summit 2015 I noted two big trends. One was the continuing focus on Spark as an expansion of the big data analytical ecosystem, with main sponsor Hortonworks (great show by the way!) and most vendors talking about how they support, interact, or deliver Spark in addition to Hadoop’s MapReduce. The other was a very noticeable direction shifting focus from trotting out ever more gee-whiz big data use cases towards talking about how to make it all work in enterprise production environments. If you ask me, this second trend is the bigger deal for IT folks to pay attention to.

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