IBM and Hadoop: Closer Than Ever
May 28, 2015
I read “Hadoop and IBM i: Not as Far Apart as One Might Think.” The letter “i” is important if you are in the IBM lingo parade. The letter “i” refers to the EBCDIC based operating system which runs on IBM Power and Pure Systems. If you don’t know EBCDIC, you should go back to your iOS device and wait for an Apple IBM app that runs on this puppy.
If your inner AS/400 itch needs scratching, you can fire up your system and use wrapper software from Mrc Productivity. You can then do the Hadoop thing.
The write up mentions other vendors working in this sector, but if you are an IBM i shop, you have companies like mrc on your iPhone’s speed dialer.
The article does state:
Not every IBM i shop is asking for Hadoop capabilities, but there have been some inquiries, says mrc’s marketing director Steve Hansen. [mrc is leading the Hadoop thing on the i/AS/400 platforms]… We’re not telling people it’s time to replace IBM i. We’re saying the data is getting bigger. There’s unstructured data and social data, and businesses just aren’t doing much with it yet. I think it’s overwhelming. Right now we’re [mrc folks] trying to build awareness to what Hadoop is and how people who are using IBM i can take this data that they’re not taking advantage of and put it into Hadoop. I don’t see it as a replacement for their IBM i. It’s more something that can enhance what they’re currently doing and tracking all this data they’re not tracking.
Yep, overwhelming.
For more information about mrc, navigate to http://www.mrc-productivity.com/.
Stephen E Arnold, May 28, 2015
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