It will come raw, naked and dirty. But before you clean, clothe and tame this beast, It would be a good idea to assess its value in domesticating it.

Big Data Junk Yard strategy lets you play around with big data in its natural form. The approach allows enough runway for technology to ramp up infrastructure and for business to find right use cases through data discovery. It’s easy, economical and quicker way to get on the big data band wagon.(…

Let's get over the hype. Unless you are a data driven giant like Amazon or Yahoo, there is no need to spend millions to dig and fill a big data lake. You might be better off with data junk yard strategy. It will let you start early and cheap so you don’t miss the big data bus. It may not sound impressive but play it right and a junk yard will end up a gold mine with an optimum balance of cost, benefits and speed.  Here is how it makes sense:

Hadoop, the core…