TLDR
I'm fiddling out network solutions for the hadoop here. Hardware is relatively cheap now, storage is dirt cheap now, but dear lord the networking to get it all glued together well is horrendously expensive. And god help you if you don't grok your storage performance tuning.
All that even before you bring in the analytics, and in that case you need folks that understand WHERE the data is relevant, not just what it might be good for. At this point I get the feeling that those of us actually doing the work have aquired the appearance of wizards, and we're expected to pull all sorts of strange things out of ..... well a hat would be polite.
(grumpy old wizard, no windows here)
(we NEED a pointy hat icon)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
