The Big data pie

Following the money patterns is interesting, after much thought and staring at spreadsheets; the breakdown is

1. Professional services (35%): not a wonder since Apache Hadoop is free; its the vendors support that is the biggest slice of the pie
2. Compute (17%) is after all commodity hardware;
3. Storage (14%) was a surprise. Its the data that is growing but even with the falling storage costs.. this comes in a distant third.
4. Apps and Analytics (13%): the splunks, tableaus of the world are very small. compared to the large and growing pie.

Did I miss the professional services boat? probably, but the real work is yet to be done.

I have heard the toy elephant story many times, but seriously the numbers tell that the real elephant is IBM- well they took the elephant sized pie.. the rest well seem like crumbs.