While many Big Data technologies are mature enough to be used for mission-critical, production use cases, the field is still nascent in some regards. Accordingly, the way forward is not always clear. As organizations develop Big Data strategies, there are a number of dimensions to consider when selecting technology partners, including: Online vs. Offline Big Data Software Licensing Models Community Developer Appeal Agility General Purpose vs. Niche Solutions In this webinar, we review each of these considerations and how they relate to the Big Data technology selection process.

1. Thriving With Big Data
Part 5
Considerations for Decision Makers

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• Thriving With Big Data
• 5 Parts, ~15 min each
– Build Apps You Couldn’t Build Before (July 16th)
– Adapt in a Competitive Market (July 23rd)
– Make Customers Happy (July 30th)
– Save Money (August 6th)
– Considerations for Decision Makers (August 13th)
• Fun, lively discussion + QA Session
About This Series

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• Considerations for Big Data and TCO
– Software Licensing Models
– Hardware Architectures
• Customer Stories
– A Tier 1 investment bank is saves $40M over 5 years
– Telefonica saves 50% on dev. costs, 67% on storage and gets to
market 75% faster
– A global company in the travel industry reduces infrastructure costs
by orders of magnitude
Last Time (Part 4): Save Money

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• Review of Considerations for Decision Makers
• Wrap-Up
Part 5: Considerations

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Consideration – Online vs. Offline
• Created, ingested, transformed,
managed, analyzed in real-time
• Low-latency
• High availability
• Ingested, managed, analyzed
as long-running processes
• Jobs run for hours or more
• Availability is lower priority
Operational Batch analytics

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Consideration – General Purpose vs.
Niche
• Standardize technology
• Reduce complexity
• Amortize investment

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Consideration – Agility
• Time to Value
• Ease of Use
• Technological Flexibility

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Consideration – Developer Appeal
• Does anyone want to
use it?
• Attract the top minds
• Improve developer
productivity
• Reduce cost and time
to market

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• Users
• Events
• Online Resources
Consideration – Community
• Developers
• Knowledge
• Time to Market

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Proprietary Cloud Open-Source
Consideration – Software Licensing
Model

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Consideration – Hardware
Architectures
Then: Scale Up Now: Scale Out
Price
Scale
Price
Scale

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• Big Data Makes it
Possible
– Build Apps You Couldn’t
Build Before
– Adapt in a Competitive
Market
– Make Customers Happy
– Save Money
Wrap-Up
• Considerations for Decision
Makers
– Online vs. Offline Big Data
– Agility
– Developer Appeal
– Community
– General Purpose vs. Niche
– Software Licensing Models
– Hardware Architectures

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• Episode videos
• White Paper: Big Data:
Examples and Guidelines for
the Enterprise Decision
Maker
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10gen.com/big-data-webinar-series-recap

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