Hey all, I just wanted to send a link to a presentation I made on how my company is building its entire core BI infrastructure around Hadoop, HBase, Lucene, and more. It features a decent amount of practical advice: from rules for approaching scalability problems, to why we chose certain aspects of the Hadoop Ecosystem. Perhaps you can use it as justification for their decisions, or as a jumping-off point to utilizing it in the real world.
I hope you find it helpful! You can catch it at my blog: http://www.roadtofailure.com . There's also a few inflammatory articles, such as "Social Media Kills the RDBMS". Ask me if you have any questions :) -- http://www.hadoopconsulting.com -- Making Hadoop and your web apps that use it scale http://www.roadtofailure.com -- The Fringes of Scalability, Social Media, and Computer Science
