Hadoop

True to its iconic logo, Hadoop is still very much the elephant in the room. Many organizations heard of it, yet relatively few can say they have a firm grasp on what the technology can do for their business, and even fewer have actually implemented it successfully at their organization.

Forrester Research predicted that Hadoop will become a cornerstone of the business technology agenda at most organizations.

During last ten years the volume and diversity of digital information grew at unprecedented rates. Amount of information is doubling every 18 months, and unstructured information volumes grow six times faster than structured.

Big data is the nowadays trend. Big data has been defined as data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.