Enterprise hits and misses - big data falls and rises, Facebook's AI chatbot stirs the enterprise

While incumbent RDMS providers like Oracle and big data platforms like Hadoop don't face an immediate threat, they ignore this technological trend at their peril." Kurt blew out the search engines with this fascinating piece, Do GPU optimized databases threaten the hegemony of Oracle, Splunk and Hadoop?. For non-techies, the gist is that "hardware-optimized" software and databases is becoming a force. As Kurt says, he doesn't use the "R" word lightly – and he's not talking R the language, he's talking revolution, fueled by the looming specialization of cloud hardware, Meanwhile, Jessica posted fresh customer views on big data from her stint at the recent Hadoop Summit in Dublin (Talking Big Data culture at Hadoop Summit with Royal Mail, Centrica, Markel). Skill-building, which doesn't need to be the province of data science PhDs alone. But IT has to shift perception and make a transformative impact. As Centrica put it, "What this journey has done for my team, and for me as an IT manager, is modernise the culture of work.