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My Thoughts on Gartner’s Thoughts About the Challenges of Hadoop for Data Integration
Just read a great Gartner report titled “Hadoop is Not a Data Integration Solution” (January 29, 2013). However, I beg to differ slightly with Gartner on this one. The title should have been “Hadoop Alone is Not a Data Integration Solution.” The report outlines all of the reasons that just deploying Hadoop by itself is often quite challenging.
Issues that we at Informatica have personally seen our customers deal with include: (more…)
The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
– Mark Twain
Ah yes, another conference another old technology is declared dead. Mainframe… dead. Any programming language other than Java…. dead. 8 track tapes …OK, well some things thankfully do die, along with the Ford Pinto that I used to listen to the Beatles Greatest Hits Red Album over and over again on that 8 track… ah yes the good old days, but I digress. (more…)