I have to say that I attended this year’s Cloudera analyst event in San Francisco with a mix of excitement, expectation and a grain of salt also. My excitement and expectation were fuelled with all that has been said about Cloudera and its close competitors in the last couple of years, and also by the fact that I am currently focusing my own research on big data and “New Data Platforms” . Moreover, when it comes to events hosted by vendors, I always recommend taking its statements with a grain of salt, because logically the information might be biased. However, in the end, the event resulted in an enriching learning experience, full of surprises and discoveries. I learnt a lot about a company that is certainly collaborating big time in the transformation of the enterprise software industry. The event certainly fulfilled many of my “want-to-know-more” expectations about Cloudera and its offering stack; the path the company has taken; and their view of the enterprise data mana
Musings about the data (D) of things.