Think Big Data Is All Hype? You're Not Alone. - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD

From a big data market reality check; meanwhile, mkt cap(Splunk + Tableau) = ~$9B while mkt cap(Teradata) = ~$9.9B

"Startups like Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR have all been closing big funding rounds in recent months, in no small part because their customers are moving from trying the technology out to deploying it for real. Indeed, Gartner’s primary rival, the market research firm IDC, is calling for the revenue of companies in the Hadoop business to grow by more than 10 times by 2016, and maybe even to disrupt the businesses of software giants like Oracle and Teradata in the process. We’ll see."

Think Big Data Is All Hype? You're Not Alone. - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD