Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019. Read them in this 11th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Peter Smails, CMO at Imanis Data
2019: The Year of NoSQL and Hadoop Enterprise Data Management
In 2018, we crossed the
tipping point for Hadoop and NoSQL database deployments. Driven by digital transformation,
multi-cloud, and the need for more agility, enterprises globally have become
increasingly reliant upon NoSQL and Hadoop databases for hosting business-critical
applications.
Research from the Enterprise
Strategy Group (ESG) shines additional light on this new reality, revealing
that:
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38% of organizations report that they have between 25 and 100 unique
database instances, while another 20% have over 100 contributing to massive
data fragmentation.
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NoSQL databases are now the
norm, with 96% of organizations using a NoSQL database by the end of 2018.
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Despite post-hype
pessimism, Hadoop is still widely used, with 50% of organizations leveraging
the technology.
With this proliferation
comes the reality that organizations must be empowered with the same caliber of
NoSQL and Hadoop enterprise data management tools for use cases including backup,
recovery, archiving, database/cloud migration, and test/dev amongst others that
they have grown accustomed to with their traditional relational databases. That
they are seeking out precisely such solutions is further validated by Justin Warren
who stated in a recent Forbes
article: "We can tell that NoSQL databases are being
used to house important data because people are now getting concerned about
backing them up."
If 2018 was the year the
market crossed the tipping point of mainstream acceptance of Hadoop and NoSQL
for business-critical applications, then 2019 will almost certainly be the year
in which global enterprises deploy enterprise data management for Hadoop and
NoSQL to protect and manage these massive (and growing) workloads.
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About the Author
Peter Smails, CMO at Imanis
Data, oversees all aspects of marketing strategy and execution including
branding, messaging, go-to-market, product marketing, AR/PR, and corporate programs.
Mr. Smails has a successful track record of creating new market
categories and bringing disruptive technologies to market. Prior
to joining Imanis Data, he was Vice President of Marketing at Datos IO, where
he established the company's reputation as the de facto standard in cloud data
management for NoSQL, leading to their acquisition by Rubrik. Smails held other executive roles at Storwize
acquired by IBM, Smart Storage acquired by OTG Software, Dell EMC, HDS and Lotus
Development Corporation. Mr. Smails
received his bachelor's degree in computer science from New York University.