theCUBE and SiliconANGLE’s coverage for the final day of VMworld 2015 kicked off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco with theCUBE cohosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcoming Wikibon’s Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert for a special discussion on Big Data trends.

Gilbert talked about the evolution of the data stack and analyzed the battle between Apache Spark and Hadoop. He sees Spark’s shared processing engine as superior to Hadoop’s Distributed File System (HDFS) file system and YARN cluster resource manager. “Spark fits in because you can have one engine that does everything all on the same data stack,” he said.

But Gilbert predicted: “I don’t think it will kill Hadoop.” He sees that both can coexist. “You’ll see overlap where Hadoop vendors will say, ‘Oh yeah, we’ll run Spark.’”

Lots of Big Data action

Furrier and Vellante have been busy networking at VMworld 2015, and Furrier gave his predictions based on the ‘word on the street.’ Vellante commented that he sees “lots of activity, lots of investment, lots of Big Data action.” Although the consensus is that Docker is going to be the winner, Furrier said, “That doesn’t mean that there’s not room for other players.”

CoreOS, Inc. is solid despite the hard market pressure on start-ups, and right now Furrier sees its biggest challenge as not blowing up by running too hot.

Most importantly, theCUBE predicted that EMC will not allow a reverse takeover, but will create a new version of itself. Furrier said, “VMware is too powerful to give up.” He added, “The new EMC will come out looking more and more like Oracle.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld 2015.

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