Designing Enterprise Platforms

On this episode of the Early Adopter Research (EAR) Podcast, “Designing Enterprise Platforms,” EAR’s Dan Woods spoke with MapR’s CTO Ted Dunning. Designing Enterprise Platforms is a podcast about the deeper issues involved in creating big victories in enterprise technology. MapR is a company that has been around for most of the Hadoop era and has always taken the point of view that Hadoop was a great infrastructure that needed to be improved. MapR makes these improvements through the file system and then layering on a variety of other components. Their conversation covered: * 3:55 - The vision for MapR * 9:00 - What executives shouldn't know about their data systems * 14:30 - Why naming data is so important * 21:00 - Why data logistics are easier with a data fabric