The Most Important Offseason Acquisition For The San Francisco Giants Could Be Hadoop

Editor's note:?Barry Eggers?is a managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he focuses on information technology infrastructure, with a specific interest in cloud computing, big data, storage, consumerization of IT, and networking. While the technology that enables big data is quite technical, the direct impact on the average consumer is clear.?Baseball, more so than other sports, is known for its massive data collection, complex statistics and informed managerial decisions. So it should be no surprise that, just as corporate enterprises are going through a big data revolution, so will the sport of baseball. And Hadoop, with its ability to manage massive data sets, is ready to play.

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