Hadoop's Role in a Big Data Architecture

With the rise of Apache Hadoop, a next-generation enterprise data architecture is emerging that connects the systems powering business transactions and business analytics. Hadoop is uniquely capable of storing, aggregating, and refining multi-structured data sources into formats that fuel new business insights. Organizations that embrace solution architectures focused on maximizing the value from big data will put themselves in a position to improve customer engagement, enhance productivity, and discover new and lucrative business opportunities. In this session we will discuss:

• The evolution of Apache Hadoop and Hadoop’s role within enterprise data architectures
• The relationship between Hadoop and existing data infrastructures such as the enterprise data warehouse Use-cases and best practices on how to incorporate Apache Hadoop into your big data strategy
• Hadoop components such as HCatalog that are focused on removing the impedance mismatch between unstructured and structured systems