BIG DATA QUARTERLY
SPRING 2017 • Volume 3 Number 1
CONTENTS
editor’s note | Joyce Wells
2 IoT, Cloud, and Big Data Analytics Loom Large
DEPARTMENTS
3 BIG DATA BRIEFING
Key news on big data product launches,
partnerships, and acquisitions
6 TRENDING NOW
Riding Two Major Apache Hadoop Trends: Cloud and Standards
By Mike Maciag and John Mertic
8 TRENDING NOW
2020 Will Be a Tipping Point for IoT
Q&A With Software AG’s Bart Schouw
10 Insights | Naresh Agarwal
The Three Things You Need for a Big Data Project to Succeed
11 Insights | Jon Pilkington
Diving Into Data Lakes With Self-Service Data Prep
FEATURES
4 The Voice of Big Data: Ensuring Cloud Success
Q&A With Cloudera’s Charles Zedlewski
12 Cover Story | John O’Brien
The Reality of IoT Adoption
32 Big Data By the Numbers
The Cloudification of the Enterprise
COLUMNS
34 Hadoop Playbook | Jim Scott
Leveraging Containers Within the Big Data Space
35 Cloud Currents | Michael Corey & Don Sullivan
Today’s Cloud: What We Know, What It Means, the New Role of “Cloud Keeper”
37 Governing Guidelines | Anne Buff
Five Ways to Help Make Big Data More Manageable
38 Big Data Basics | Lindy Ryan
The New Face of Data Science Education
39 Data Science Deep Dive | Bart Baesens
Customer Journey Analytics