by Angela Guess
In a recent interview with Ron Powell of BeyeNetwork, Alex Gorelik of Informatica discussed the benefits of Hadoop and how Hadoop is being used at Informatica. Gorelik commented, “Hadoop is a great solution for large-scale data analysis. You get all the complex functionality that you need to run very large-scale parallel clusters – fault tolerance, administration, and data processing – and you get MapReduce, which helps you create data processing jobs that can scale out to a massive number of nodes. Therefore, it’s a very attractive economic model. It provides low price, very powerful computing and it’s also in production at Facebook, Yahoo and other large IT shops.”
He continues, “We are seeing a very high rate of adoption, and many of our customers have pilot implementations. They have advanced technology groups or special advanced analytics groups that are mining the clusters and getting wonderful results. They’re trying new use cases, and they’re trying existing use cases. Where they are getting stuck is with mainstreaming it because with Hadoop you don’t get the ETL capability, data governance, metadata, or data quality and profiling – all the things that we’ve been building for the last 20 years for the data ecosystem.”
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