1. Visa operates the world's largest payment network, VisaNet, which processes over 130 million authorizations per day across 28 million merchant locations.
2. Hadoop offers the potential to analyze Visa's large volumes of transaction data faster than currently possible. Visa is researching how to configure Hadoop solutions and integrate them securely within its existing financial systems.
3. Key questions include how to securely load data into Hadoop clusters, integrate security features like hardware security modules, and ensure solutions meet Visa's requirements of being fast, secure, flexible, reliable and scalable for enterprise use.