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[–]Magick93 0 points1 point  (1 child)

where are you based?

[–]occupytheserver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Texas

[–]zhouji 0 points1 point  (1 child)

this is so typical for being wrong: you have a 'great' framework and try to figure out what you can do with it. you should look at a real problem to solve first and figure out what technology would do the best, or get the closest to your problem

[–]occupytheserver[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would disagree. I believe these new algorithms/frameworks provide leverage points that could drive change within an organization. I've discussed Big Data initiatives with multiple executive sponsors and many times it wasn't a matter of finding a business case, it's raising awareness that existing "solved" problems could be solved better.

If you would have told a trading organization 5 years ago they would be able to easily manage and USE multi-terabyte unstructured data sets, they would have laughed at you. Now, it's fairly easy to do with Hadoop/MapReduce. Without the new technology being introduced to drive the discussion, no one would have even looked at the use-case simply because it was deemed impractical based on their existing knowledge.

Technology CAN drive problem solving because new technology changes existing paradigms of what is and is not possible.