BIG DATA QUARTERLY
FALL 2015
Volume 1, Number 3
CONTENTS
EDITOR'S NOTE | Joyce Wells
2 Hadoop—IT Heavyweight Versus Hype
departments
3 BIG DATA BRIEFING
Key news on big data product launches, partnerships, and acquisitions
11 INSIGHTS | Martin Risau and Dragan Rakovich
Reconsidering Legacy BI Architectures in the Age of Big Data
features
4 THE VOICE OF BIG DATA
Getting Big Return From Big Data:Q&A With Hortonworks’ Shaun Connolly
6 IN-DEPTH REPORT | John O’Brien
Emerging Technologies in the Big Data Revolution: Grasping Hadoop’s Full Potential
SPECIAL SECTION > BIG DATA 50
25 INTRODUCTION
26 Big Data 50: Companies Driving Innovation
34 BIG DATA BY THE NUMBERSS
Data Professionals in a Big Data World
columns
36 BIG DATA BASICS | Lindy Ryan
Aftershocks of the Big Data Revolution
37 CLOUD CURRENTS | Michael Corey & Don Sullivan
Buyer Beware—Which Rules Still Apply in the Cloud?
39 HADOOP PLAYBOOK | Jim Scott
It’s Always a Good Time for Real Time
40 THE IOT INSIDER | Stuart Taylor
Picking IoT Winners
41 GOVERNING GUIDELINES | Scott Zoldi
Shortening the Path to Innovation With Big Data as a Service
42 DATA SCIENCE DEEP DIVE | Bart Baesens
New Analytics Approaches to Detecting Fraud