Given the innovations in Hadoop and the evolution of the entire data architecture, Bearden sees big changes in the data layer.

“Not only is the data layer going to replatform away from the standard silo transactional systems, but Hadoop creates a central architecture where all workload types can come together and bring all data sets,” he said. “Now, you can deploy data across any deployment architecture that fits the workload the best. So you get not only a modern data architecture, but also a modern deployment architecture that will make it transparent where that data is on which deployment architecture.”

Hadoop also has the potential to influence the enterprise on a fundamental level.

“Hadoop allows the enterprise to change its business model from being reactive post-transaction to being interactive pre-transaction,” said Bearden. “Those next-generation apps can be interactive. There’s so much downstream opportunity that it’s going to happen, and in a very big way.”