Sneak peek into IBM's Information strategy

Probably one of the most well articulated interviews on Big Data software space, this interview with IBM's Bob Picciano offers a good peek inside IBM's Information Management strategy. With candid opinion on BLU Accelerator for IBM DB2 v/s HANA, MongoDB, Cassandra and the significance of Hadoop disruption, this article seems like a collector copy.

Hadoop will displace not just some aspects of data warehouse work, it will create disruption in the field of ETL as well.

One of the biggest businesses around the Z mainframe is around Linux and workload consolidation. As we run Hadoop on Linux, there's an opportunity to have that workload in a Z environment. In fact, we've announced the ability to put our BigInsights engine on ZBX, which are Z blades inside of a Z enterprise cluster.

source: http://www.informationweek.com/software/information-management/ibm-and-big-data-disruption-insiders-vie/240157981?pgno=3