During the late 1980s into the 1990s, business innovation was often driven by top-down initiatives for the sake of business process re-engineering and enterprise resource planning software.
The types of people Mitchell needs would ideally have experience in a fast growing company and of the engineering demands of large enterprise, Cloud-based software support.
They now have the choice of products supported by serious engineering teams that are much larger and more skilled and enterprisesoftware than Cloudera and Hortonworks.
The traditional IT model requires system engineering that binds most software to the hardware and does not provide an enterprise suite of functionality or allow for increased flexibility and a governed lifecycle of services.