Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense (Part 3)

Eldad Farkash: Another trend would be regarding the sources of data. Today, we’re just starting to grasp the value of data. What’s missing is more sources. When I say more sources, I’m not talking about the conventional databases. I’m talking about machines and environment. Blending this data into what we do on databases has tremendous impact. I’ve seen only the huge companies able to do that usually because it requires a massive amount of investment in technology and infrastructure. As for the hardware trends in the upcoming years, we expect to see more and more getting squeezed up into smaller machines that can do much more with much less.

Sramana Mitra: Would it be fair to say at this point that the infrastructure landscape and ecosystem is becoming pretty mature or would you say that there are still issues with that side that need to be solved?

Eldad Farkash: I would say yes. It is, maybe, over matured. The beauty with Big Data is that once it gets matured, it gets reinvented. We’ve seen it in the last 5 to 10 years that every trend gets spiked up very fast. This is something that is very common with BI and Big Data. We move on with those infrastructure technologies and since most of them are open source to start with, I think it’s the foundation for the behavior of the market. Instead of having a mature market that is staying frozen for years, we actually see open source projects coming out of universities and academic institutions and many times, by those huge web companies themselves. They actually compete with the establishment.

I would say the market leaders in terms of infrastructure—Cloudera and Hortonworks—are already there. They are here to stay and I don’t see anyone taking their business away. Just like the guys before them, I believe that with hardware trends and with the evolution of open source, we are going to see some amazing surprises coming out. I believe we’re starting to see universities competing with each other on producing those open source projects.

This segment is part 3 in the series : Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense
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