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Big Data: Velocity of Hadoop Adoption Tepid
The Hadoop hype may be petering out based on the results of a Gartner study. Gartner found that only about one quarter of businesses say that they are doing anything at all with Hadoop, including piloting and just experimenting. 11 percent say that they hope to invest and investigate Hadoop over the next year, and 7 percent don’t have any plans until the following year.
Merv Adrian, research vice president at Gartner, said that “with such large incidence of organizations with no plans or already on their Hadoop journey, future demand for Hadoop looks fairly anemic over at least the next 24 months. Moreover, the lack of near-term plans for Hadoop adoption suggest that, despite continuing enthusiasm for the big data phenomenon, demand for Hadoop specifically is not accelerating,” said . “The best hope for revenue growth for providers would appear to be in moving to larger deployments within their existing customer base.”
The three main reasons why these companies haven’t brought on Hadoop technology are:
- Hadoop isn’t yet a priority
- Hadoop was likely to be overkill for the types of everyday problems that businesses face and the opportunity cost of implementing are too high relative to the expected benefit
- Also the lack of Hadoop skills holds back many organization. Even if they brought Hadoop in to use, 57 percent of organizations say they don’t have the right in-house skills to effectively use it
Nick Heudecker, research director at Gartner, said that “despite considerable hype and reported successes for early adopters, 54% of survey respondents report no plans to invest at this time, while only 18% have plans to invest in Hadoop over the next two years. Furthermore, the early adopters don’t appear to be championing for substantial Hadoop adoption over the next 24 months: in fact, there are fewer who plan to begin in the next two years than already have.”
