The document discusses big data market trends and provides advice on how organizations can develop a big data strategy and implementation plan. It outlines a 5 step approach for modernizing an organization's data warehouse with new big data technologies: 1) enhancing the data warehouse with unstructured data, 2) extending it with data virtualization, 3) increasing scalability with MPP databases, 4) accelerating analytics with in-database processing, and 5) creating an operational data store with Hadoop. The document also provides tips for selecting big data vendors, such as evaluating a vendor's ability to integrate with existing systems and make analytics accessible to both power users and business users.