Analyst Perspectives Weekly Scan

We begin this week with conversations surround Hadoop.  Here are some insights that can be found in the Open Source section:

• Perspectives on Hadoop: Procurement, Plans, and Positioning  | Gartner - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 |Merv Adrian
• Perspectives on Hadoop Part Two: Pausing Plans  | Gartner - Thu, 04 Jun 2015 |Merv Adrian
• Hadoop and OpenStack – Is the Sheen Really Wearing off? | Sherpas in Blue Shirts | Everest Group - Wed, 03 Jun 2015 |Yugal Joshi
• Make Hadoop the world’s largest iSCSI target | TechnoQWAN - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 |Robin Harris

In the Cloud Computing section, analysts discuss various relationships between cloud and the enterprise.  Here are just a few:

• Marquee Companies Switch to Microsoft Dynamics Cloud CRM Software Technology Evaluation Centers - Wed, 03 Jun 2015  
• Can Your Organization Build A Customer Experience To Rival The Cloud-Based Upstarts? | Forrester - Wed, 03 Jun 2015 |TJ Keitt
• Salesforce Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth? | Saugatuck Technology - Wed, 03 Jun 2015 |Ron Exler
• Unit4 Strikes Cloud ERP Software Deal with Canadian Local Governments  | Technology Evaluation Centers - Wed, 03 Jun 2015  
• Tight Budgets and Impending Upgrades Drive Cloud Evaluation | Saugatuck Technology - Tue, 02 Jun 2015 |Charlie Burns

The Internet of Things continues to be a popular topic among analysts.  Here are some IoT headlines as it relates to Data, Big Data & Digital Assets:

• Three reasons why the Internet of Things (IOT) will dwarf Big Data  | Gartner - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 |Andrew White
• The Internet of Things Will Give Rise To The Algorithm Economy  | Gartner - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 |Peter Sondergaard
• Explosive Internet of Things Spending to Reach $1.7 Trillion in 2020, According to IDC | IDC - Tue, 02 Jun 2015  
• The Commerce of Things | VisionMobile - Tue, 02 Jun 2015 |Andreas Constantinou

Here are more headlines to note from this week:

• Opinionated Infrastructure Podcast: Java 20 years in, past, present, future. | RedMonk - Tue, 02 Jun 2015 |James Governor
• HP Gives Split Update at Discover 2015 | Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - Thu, 04 Jun 2015 |Jean-Christophe Bodhuin
• Is this Dell's Carpe Diem Moment? | The Enterprise Strategy Group - Fri, 05 Jun 2015  
• Informatica and the buyout | Bloor Research - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 |Philip Howard
• VCE: The Car Factory of Converged/HyperScale Deployments | Enderle Group - Wed, 03 Jun 2015 |Rob Enderle
• Reimagining Business: The Circular Economy | SMB Group - Thu, 04 Jun 2015 |Laurie McCabe
• What is DevOps? | Forrester - Thu, 04 Jun 2015 |Amy DeMartine
• Global In-Building Off-load to Exceed 17 EB per Month—Critical Leverage for Mobile Broadband Operators | ABI Research - Mon, 01 Jun 2015  
• Five Myths About the Commoditization of IT | Cutter Consortium - Tue, 02 Jun 2015 |James Mitchell
• IBM's World of Watson | IDC Insights - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 |Michael Versace
• Healthcare Had High Visibility at IBM's World of Watson | IDC Insights - Mon, 01 Jun 2015 |Cynthia Burghard