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It's great to see so many businesses start to experiment with Hadoop and its unique toolset. But I'm sure all this exciting experimentation is creating more than one headache for the IT team. Today, VMware announced some very useful extensions to Project Serengeti, essentially allowing the creation of virtual Hadoop clusters with very different characteristics to be easily delivered as-a-service on top of existing VMware infrastructure. While I'm sure there are Hadoop purists who might object to anything other than a dedicated, bare metal hand-crafted implementations, I think the VMware team has come up with a great capability that encourages increased experimentation of Hadoop's capabilities across the business without breaking the bank. What's Happening Take any interesting business process -- anywhere -- and it's a candidate for radical improvement using predictive analytics and big data. From revenue generation (marketing analytics, sales productivity) to cost-savings (supply chain, logistics, etc.) and even the IT team (advanced security, demand forecasting, etc.) it's turning out to be a corporate tool that can be used just about everywhere and anywhere. But this experimentation comes at a cost. While many of the software tools (e.g. Hadoop, MapR, etc.) are near-free, the infrastructure most certainly is not.... |
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