How to Escape the Dark Valley of Your Hadoop Journey - Gary Nakamura - Voices - AllThingsD

A Hadoop tools reality check (from the CEO of Concurrent, a company that offers Hadoop-related tools)

"The power of big data has been established, but our understanding of how to exploit it in the most productive way is still maturing. The initial toolset that came with Hadoop didn’t anticipate the kinds of enterprise applications and powerful analyses that businesses would want to build on it. Thus, many have fallen into the Dark Valley. But a new breed of middleware (APIs and DSLs) has arrived. They keep track of all the variables and peculiarities of Hadoop, abstract them away from development, and offer better reliability, sustainability and operational characteristics so that enterprises can find their way back out into the light."

How to Escape the Dark Valley of Your Hadoop Journey - Gary Nakamura - Voices - AllThingsD