Recent articles in leading business publications, a hype-cycle presentation by Gartner, and a number of blogs have all startled the world of big data by asking one “big” question: are we done? Did the big data bubble burst even quicker than the “dot com” bubble? Has the big data bubble burst?
The answer is: not really. If anything, the market for infrastructure is booming with more vendors distributing commercial versions of open source software (like Hadoop and NoSQL). We are seeing the evolution of new consulting practices focused on analytics and