Hadoop: The Engine That Drives Big Data

Hadoop: The Engine That Drives Big Data

The IDC conservatively predicts that Hadoop will represent a software market of approximately $816 million by 2016 while at the same time providing the bedrock solution for the Big Data market, which is in turn expected to become $23 BILLION dollar business by 2016.<br /><br />Lars Nielsen's HADOOP: THE ENGINE THAT DRIVES BIG DATA has been crafted to provide non-tech entrepreneurs, business managers, and investors with a concise, jargon-free introduction to the Hadoop platform – that most vital of tools for harvesting and sorting massive amounts of streaming, real-time unstructured information and quickly gaining actionable Business Intelligence (BI) via Big Data Analytics.<br /><br />Adopting a user-friendly approach, Nielsen's 7000-word executive summary explains both Hadoop's strengths and its limitations, as well as the fundamentals of how it works, how it evolved and why it is so vital to the future of business.