Will the Hadoop big data skills gap soon be a thing of the past?

Sooraj Shah
Sooraj Shah
clock 16 February 2015 •

Are the actions being taken by Hadoop distributors and customers enough to ensure that we won't be hearing about a dearth of Hadoop talent in 2020?

Despite the future of Hadoop looking rosy for the three main distributors -Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR - there is a common issue with new technologies in any field, one that all three vendors have to...

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