This document discusses IBM's Big Data platform and the marriage of Hadoop and data warehousing. It covers how Big Data is driving new use cases across enterprises due to the 3Vs of volume, velocity and variety. It also discusses how Hadoop and data warehousing complement each other by providing massively parallel processing for analytics on all types of data at scale. The emergence of the Hadoop data warehouse is examined as the next generation Big Data platform that can provide timely insights from both structured and unstructured data.