BIG DATA QUARTERLY
SPRING 2016 • Volume 2, Number 1
CONTENTS
editor’s note | Joyce Wells
2 Big Data Matures
departments
3 BIG DATA BRIEFING
Key news on big data product launches, partnerships, and acquisitions
6 INSIGHTS | John O’Brien
Insights From Early Data Lake Adopters
9 INSIGHTS | Joyce Wells & Stephanie Simone
Reflections on 10 Years of Hadoop and Big Data
10 INSIGHTS | Pradeep Amladi
The Digital Economy: How It Will Transform Your Products and Your Future
features
4 THE VOICE OF BIG DATA
Big Data at a Turning Point: Q&A With Caserta Concepts’ Joe Caserta
12 COVER STORY | Joe McKendrick
The Internet of Things: A Huge Opportunity, Wrapped in Risk
28 BIG DATA BY THE NUMBERS
Analytics in a Fast Data World
columns
30 BIG DATA BASICS | Lindy Ryan
Four Steps to Increasing Data Visualization Competency
31 CLOUD CURRENTS | Michael Corey & Don Sullivan
Are You Ready for the Cloud?
33 HADOOP PLAYBOOK | Jim Scott
Streamlining Business With a NoSQL Document Database
34 THE IoT INSIDER | Stuart Taylor
10 Predictions for the Future of IoT
35 GOVERNING GUIDELINES | Anne Buff
The Three E’s of Enterprise Data Strategy
36 DATA SCIENCE DEEP DIVE | Bart Baesens
Big Data for Credit Scoring: Opportunities and Challenges