Hadoop Bridges Gap between IT and Business
April 24, 2014
The IT side of the coin and the business side of the coin never really seem to be looking in the same direction, do they? Which is a shame, because so much productivity is lost over this battle at work. Thankfully, we are not the only ones thinking so. Some even have solutions, as we found in a recent Information Week story, “Big Data Forces IT and Business to get Synced.”
The answer, according to the story:
Hadoop, the foundation of HGST’s BDP, is particularly well suited to breaking through data silos. Traditional relational databases store their data in well-defined table structures, and therefore require detailed data modeling before a single row of data can be loaded. Hadoop, on the other hand, simply stores its data as files on its distributed file system, greatly streamlining the data loading process.
Hadoop does seem to be a solid example in our book, too. This is evidence, as is a recent story in InfoWorld about Lucidworks teaming with Hadoop to bridge that gap even more. We like what we are seeing and have no doubt the business and IT worlds will mesh if they keep thinking like this.
Patrick Roland, April 24, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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