Roche & big data

• Data warehousing on Hadoop - DOs and DON'Ts (Marek Grzenkowicz)

The brave new world of Big Data has been around for a while and its tools have been successfully applied to solve different problems. But is it a silver bullet? Is it really completely new? Can you forget the old truths of design, architecture and project management? Medical laboratory instruments produce immense volumes of log files. Until recently, they were used only for troubleshooting and maintenance purposes. However, hidden inside are insights that could allow the laboratory managers to streamline and optimize the diagnostic process. The goal of the StraDa project is to gather the log files from hundreds of Roche diagnostic instruments spread around the world and transform these TBs of data into a data warehouse.