Doug Henschen at InformationWeek: “Cloud computing and in-memory databases, two darlings of the big data movement, have passed the ‘peak of inflated expectations’ and are headed into the ‘trough of disillusionment,’ according to Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Big Data, 2013.”
See here for last year’s Hype Cycle for Big Data
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