{"id":5463,"date":"2015-06-22T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2015-05-13T07:55:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T15:55:05","slug":"big-data-velocity-of-hadoop-adoption-tepid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/big-data-velocity-of-hadoop-adoption-tepid\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data: Velocity of Hadoop Adoption Tepid"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hadoop hype may be petering out based on the results of a Gartner study<\/a>. \u00a0Gartner found that only about one quarter of businesses say that they are doing anything at all with Hadoop, including piloting and just experimenting. \u00a011 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.<\/p>\n

Merv Adrian<\/a>, research vice president at Gartner, said that\u00a0“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.”<\/p>\n

The three main reasons why these companies haven’t brought on Hadoop technology are:<\/p>\n