Hadoop has a long way to go before meeting the standards set forth by enterprise-grade software, according to MapR chief application architect Ted Dunning. He discussed the Big Data ecosystem and his company’s efforts to bridge the gap between the open-source community and the traditional enterprise in a recent interview with SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmondson.

Dunning kicks off the session with a brief overview of M7, MapR’s cutting edge Hadoop distribution. He tells Winston that the platform offers a wide range of benefits, including the ability to digest read-intensive workloads up to 25 times faster than the vanilla version of Hadoop. He then describes how enterprise adoption is driving innovation:

“We’re seeing that open software is moving from the science fair phase where the people who were using it were the very early adopters…into an enterprise area, and the expectations are becoming very different: the expectations for continuity, maturity of implementation, [and] level of support. All of those notch up a lot when you sell to large organizations and when their business depends on it,” the executive notes.

The tech industry is ahead of other sectors when it comes to Hadoop adoption, Dunning says, but only by a year or two. Historically conservative industries such as the financial services market are quickly catching up.

Winston mentions that Hadoop is gaining a lot of traction among large banks, but not among their smaller peers. Dunning explains that community banks don’t have nearly as many resources as their mega regional competitors, and their IT departments are proportional to their size. The best they can do is implement services from major firms such as Zions Bank, which utilizes MapR’s Hadoop distro to power its security services.

See the video below for the full interview.