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TA’S VISION FOR THE BLEND RCIAL AND OPEN SOURCE IS USTOMERS, WHO CONTINUE RADATA TO UNLEASH THEIR POTENTIAL. accelerate the development process. Kylo also leverages reusable templates to increase productivity. “Many organizations find that implementing big data solutions on the Hadoop stack is a complex endeavour. Big data technologies are heavily oriented to software engineering, developers and system administrators,” said Nik Rouda, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). “Our research found 28 percent of organizations still struggle to staff teams www.intelligentcio.com with enough BI and analytics talent, much less big data and open source solution expertise. 77 percent of those surveyed say new big data initiatives will take between seven months and three years to show significant business value. It doesn’t have to be that way. I commend Teradata for open sourcing Kylo – an innovative and meaningful contribution.” “Kylo is an exciting first in open source data lake management, and perfectly represents Teradata’s vision around big data, analytics, and open source software,” said Oliver Ratzesberger, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Teradata. “Teradata has a rich history in the development of many open source projects, including Presto, and Covalent. We know how commercial and open source should work together. So, we engineer the best of both worlds, and we pioneer new approaches to open source software as part of our customer-choice strategy, improving the commercial and open source landscape for everyone.” INTELLIGENTCIO 35