BrandPost: Five Important Lessons Learned from a Journey to Hadoop

In the first post in this two-part series, I summarized the journey to Hadoop at Dell SecureWorks. In this follow-on post, I will wrap up the story of our Hadoop journey with a look at five key lessons that we learned. Keep these important best practices in mind should you embark on your own Hadoop journey.Lesson 1: Start with the end in mind Our Hadoop journey began with this goal: getting all data flowing into our proprietary system to also flow into our Hadoop cluster. We decided to delay fig