| | February 20176CIOReviewWith data aplenty, Hadoop has come to the rescue of many, completing a decade and a year last month. Some believe that the elephantine data storage framework has run its due course and is in on its way to extinction. Clearly not. When Facebook, a fellow Hadooper, moved 30 petabytes of its Hadoop cluster data to a new location, engineer Paul Yang, who orchestrated the migration, hinted at the replication system increasing "the appeal of using Hadoop for high-reliability enterprise applications."Having sprung out of Google's published studies, Hadoop did send a new bout of distributed storage and computing into practice. The very fact that Hadoop doesn't push commodity hardware out of the data center, and instead `makes do' with legacy equipments, giving highly reliable scalability, is what made the distributed computing paradigm a hit among data geeks. And that will continue to be the case, till there comes a time when use of unstructured data becomes history. For all we know, unstructured data types are not going anywhere; business records, scalable graphics files, social media content, and other web data have only one direction to leap towards and that is a trail rooted with the promise of distributed computing frameworks like Hadoop.There is also the case of skill shortage in the field of MapReduce, a long-standing native programming model for Hadoop's distributed computing. It has led to the notion of Hadoop losing its game in the storage universe. Nevertheless, alternatives like Spark, Storm, Hive, and Pig are still suiting up for the foreseeable future. Highly robust and known for its fault tolerant nature, Hadoop may not be the right place to go for someone who is in the dark about data storage and computing. But with the right pinch of salt and the right assistance, Hadoop has its own seat reserved in the future of storing, processing, and analyzing unstructured data sets economically.Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.com Copyright © 2017 ValleyMedia Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewFEBRUARY - 24 - 2017Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 February - 24 - 2017, Vol 06 SE 14 Published by ValleyMedia Inc.To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com HADOOP TECHNOLOGY SPECIALCIOReviewEditorial StaffSalesT: 510-556-2280Alex D'Souza Justin Smith Nisha SahadevCarolynn WaltersKyle SummersSarah FernandesBrian Thomasbrian@cioreview.comVisualizersStephen ThomasArpita GhoshManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeEditorialAddressing the `Elephant in the Room'
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