Excerpt adapted from InsideBigData.com. Read the full article here. To read the headlines, it’s easy to think that the only thing bigger than ‘big data’ is big talk about big data, but in fact, it’s been about 3 years since Gartner’s Svetlana Sicular called the start of Hadoop’s “trough of disillusionment.” So it should come…

When people talk big data and Hadoop, it’s usually about the scale of data and scope of the sources. With the latest release of Apache Impala (incubating), the scale of the user base — beyond data scientists and analytic programmers — is set to change dramatically. Imagine this use case: You wake up at 2…

Editor’s note: Shant Hovsepian, CTO and Co-founder of Arcadia Data, presented at #datadrivenNYC on how to get BI right in the big data space. “You don’t use previous generation architectures to store your big data, so why should you use previous generation business intelligence (BI) tools to analyze it?” 10 commandments of BI on Big…

This excerpt is cross-posted from data-informed.com. Hadoop’s potential for cost-savings, scale, and speed has been touted by industry analysts for some time, but getting Hadoop to the point of payoff isn’t easy. As Gartner’s 2015 Hadoop Adoption Study points out, the top two roadblocks for adoption are obtaining the right skills and determining how to…

Big data starts with Hadoop. But just because it’s big doesn’t mean you shouldn’t jump right in. That’s why we introduced Arcadia Instant. It’s the quickest, easiest way for you to connect directly to Hadoop, an all-in-one tool that unifies data discovery, visual analytics and business intelligence. Also, it’s free. That should make it even…