Early Hadoop adopter Centrica British Gas starts to reap the benefits

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Consolidating data infrastructure onto Hadoop gives opportunity to transform the business, says head of big data solutions Dee Mitra

Speaking at the Hadoop Summit 2015 in Brussels today, Dee Mitra, head of big data solutions at Centrica British Gas explained some of the ways in which the company is using Hadoop, including consol...

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