Wavelength Podcast Ep. 173: Hadoop, Data Warehousing
MarkLogic's CTO, Giles Nelson, discusses some of the pressing data challenging facing the industry.
Anthony Malakian, Editor-in-Chief of WatersTechnology, records a weekly podcast touching on the biggest stories in financial technology.
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Giles Nelson, CTO of financial services for MarkLogic, joins the podcast to discuss data issues facing the capital markets, data warehousing, and Hadoop.
1:00 Giles Nelson joins the podcast.
2:00 Conventional approaches to managing data are stuck in the 1970s, according to Giles.
7:00 How to change hearts and minds.
15:00 Data warehouses—are they dead?
22:00 The balance between emerging technologies and legacy technologies.
26:00 Is the Hadoop hype gone, or just changing?
32:00 Why do firms need to be both innovative and think outside of the box, as well as stay responsible to not flush funds down the drain on a shiny new object.
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