High-Performance, Big Data Analytics Takes a Certain Understanding

In a recent Enterprise Strategy Group study, we asked participants to identify the biggest drivers for deploying a new data analytics platform for big data requirements and to tell us the greatest benefits they expected to realize as a result. We found this: Organizations are looking at new data analytics platforms as a way to cut costs. But their expectations aren’t centered on completing analytics on larger datasets closer to real time. Rather, “improving business agility” won the top spot. And that is exactly what high-performance computing (HPC) and big data analytics platforms such as Hadoop and massively parallel processing (MPP) analytical databases are advertised to deliver.

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