Syncsort, a global leader in Big Data integration solutions, announced the results from a multi-stage industry survey conducted over the first half of 2014 which show enterprise IT decision makers are making serious strategic commitments to Big Data migration and analytics programs, signaling an industry evolution from trial to action. Syncsort polled over 100 IT decision makers, ranging from data scientists, data architects, developers and IT managers at the recent Hadoop Summit in San Jose and the Cloudera Session in Boston. The majority of respondents were from medium to large enterprises who indicated that 5% or more of their current budgets were allocated to Big Data projects, much of that effort focusing on offloading data warehouse data for enterprise wide use through analytics. These results show, regardless of Hadoop distribution preference, decision makers have transitioned their focus from test or stealth projects to real world execution of Big Data strategies.