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How Disney Built a Big Data Platform on a Startup Budget
Excerpt: Disney is a massive company, but when it comes to its big data platform, the entertainment conglomerate looks a lot like a startup. Kind of, that is. By the sheer power of its will (and ingenuity), a small team has been able to craft a large custom platform out of Hadoop, NoSQL databases and other open-source technologies. But for better or for worse, doing big data at such a large company means playing by a different set of rules.
Read more: http://gigaom.com/data/how-disney-built-a-big-data-platform-on-a-startup-budget/
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