Dataworks Summit - Big Data meets multi-cloud

'The network is the computer' was the mantra of the early days of connected systems, but it took the Internet to fully realize the concept. In today's era of smart sensors, cheap storage and sophisticated algorithms, an apt aphorism might be'the data is the business' in that business decisions, new services and product strategies are fueled by the analysis of massive amounts of mundane data. The ability to collect, store and analyze such routine data as transaction records, system logs, sensor readings and location information with increasing granularity has the potential to turn what was formerly lost or ignored information into valuable business assets. The organizations that are most adept at spinning the digital straw into gold find themselves at a significant competitive advantage. Aside from the advances in core infrastructure, perhaps nothing has been as responsible for the rise of data-inspired business decisions as the Hadoop ecosystem of open source distributed data storage and processing software.