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Big Data is plunging into a “trough of disillusionment” that will dissuade many companies from pursuing analytics technology, according to a Gartner analyst. Gartner regularly updates what it terms the Hype Cycle, in which technologies progress from rising interest, to overexposure, to the Dante…
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Of course it is! So is “cloud” and before that, “thin client”, among others It’s all a bunch of hooey by people who want to make money in IT without knowing anything about it. Especially that “analyst”. I bet s/he makes more than I do, and I’m doing it.
A typical desktop PC – not big iron, clusters, or anything that’s stamped “enterprise” – is faster than a supercomputer of 15 years ago. A handheld will be doing “big data” in 10 years, and we won’t even know it.
Fred you are so right on this. im still searching for my cup holder on my pc…..;)
I worked at a bank which was enamored with self-service BI, and wanted to implement it just for the heck of it, although all they were doing was financial reporting, and not analytics–wrong-minded indeed.
Just attended an Oracle summit where they were pushing Big Data, interesting.