Hadoop creator: 'Google is living a few years in the future and sending the rest of us messages' | ZDNet

Excerpt from a timely big data reality check

"Enterprise has a history of riding in Google's slipstream. It was in 2004 that Google revealed the technologies that inspired the creation of Hadoop, the platform that it is only today starting to be used by business for big data analytics.
Hadoop's co-creator Doug Cutting believes industry will continue to borrow from Google's toolbox, and sees a bright future in enterprise for the recently announced Google Spanner.
"Google is living a few years in the future and sending the rest of us messages," he said at the O'Reilly Strata Conference in London."

Hadoop creator: 'Google is living a few years in the future and sending the rest of us messages' | ZDNet