How GE uses Hadoop to analyze big data

I think I now have brain cancer from reading that.

It's important to "leverage" technologies such as hadoop which enable delivering critical business needs. Most people call that "using modern tools to solve pressing problems". If anything this article makes me much less likely to look into Hadoop, ever.

That's how GE operates. All communication (both internal and external) is absolutely devoid of content making it very hard to move forward on design decisions. That's one of the reasons that the project team I was on in 2005 is still in almost the exact same position 5 years later (minus the 2 team members + myself that left out of frustration).