Five Things to Consider as Strata Kicks Off

Today marks the start of the fall Strata Data Conference in New York City, which has traditionally been the big data community's biggest show of the year. It's been a wild ride for the big data crowd in 2018, one that's brought its share of highs and lows. Now it's worth taking some time to consider where big data has come, and where it's possibly headed in the future. Here are five things to keep in mind as the Strata Data Conference kicks off. We've said this before, but it bears repeating: Hadoop is just one of many technologies angling for relevance in today's increasingly heterogeneous at-scale computing environment.