— Chicago-Based Ocient Announces Extended Series B of $49.4 Million
Change tends to occur in one of two fashions: Evolutionary, which brings incremental improvements over relatively long time periods; or Revolutionary, which yields significant transformation quickly. We’ve seen both in the data warehousing industry, which for decades was led by pioneers like Teradata and Vertica.
In the mid 2000s, an apparent step change took hold, as an open-source project that started at Yahoo! took root at Google. Hadoop, the mechanism by which the early Internet was indexed, hit the market with a bang, and several companies spun out of that shift, most notably Cloudera, but also Hortonworks and eventually MapR.
About Eric Kavanagh
Career media professional who designs and manages an array of Web-based research and media products, including: The Briefing Room, World Matters, Hot Technologies; as well as DM Radio & InsideAnalysis which are both now broadcast coast-to-coast in 25+ markets, reaching upwards of 1 million listeners per episode. Recognized as a luminary in the field of Big Data. Recognized by Techopedia and Big Data Republic as one of the top experts to follow on Twitter