Big Data platforms are extending data infrastructures, enabling capacity and performance increases in ways that are becoming more and more economical and attainable for today’s data-driven companies. However, estimating the total cost of ownership (TCO) for Hadoop can be challenging, with many costs hidden or not well understood when Hadoop environments are initially built and deployed.
In this Insight paper, we explore the total costs of ownership of Hadoop Big Data environments from a soft costs (or hidden) perspective. We analyze and discuss "soft costs” – those