Maybe. But I think it is mainly due to expensive ass consultants selling management the idea of deriving deep insights out of terabytes of application logs. And

Maybe. But I think it is mainly due to expensive ass consultants selling management the idea of deriving deep insights out of terabytes of application logs. And since it is about big data so big hardware seems natural to management. Regarding OO Specialists I remember in J2EE heydays stodgy Weblogic/Websphere tools would take 2GB RAM when 256MB was more of standard. So management would approve this configuration for important enterprise projects done in J2EE.