Every technologist I know has been working to learn more about Hadoop. I bet you are already somewhat familiar with some of the neat use-cases of this technological framework.
But let me ask, wouldn’t you like to be able to express what Hadoop is in a clear, succinct way? Would you like to be able to do that in ways that non-technologists understand? That is a great goal to have and is actually easily accomplished.
Just watch the following video of Cloudera CEO Mike Olson as he gives an articulation of “Hadoop 101″.
Mike points out that in the old days if you had a data problem you would write a big check for a massive piece of hardware and with any money left over you would by some very expensive but powerful software from Oracle. That box with software and data became your data temple and your analysis and conclusions were done there.
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There are problems with that approach. Data is now growing so fast. It is now impossible for one box to have all your data. You must have your data across multiple servers and use software that can coordinate and operate across all those servers. Hadoop is the platform designed to do this. It is designed to solve the problems of today, not the problems of yesterday.
Bob Gourley, former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), is Founder and CTO of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm providing fact based technology reviews in support of venture capital, private equity and emerging technology firms. He has extensive industry experience in intelligence and security and was awarded an intelligence community meritorious achievement award by AFCEA in 2008, and has also been recognized as an Infoworld Top 25 CTO and as one of the most fascinating communicators in Government IT by GovFresh.
ckendrick99 wrote: Speaking as someone who knows what's going on in more than one company :) .. some of the world's largest organizations have made strong, company-wide policy changes that they need to move off of Flex. Others don't get it yet, as you point out.
What is more telling, there is major brain drain in the Flex team at Adobe - Adobe's own people understand that Flex has no future. They are seeking greener pastures.
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