This document discusses Bloomberg's use of HBase for its "medium data" needs in serving financial customers. It outlines challenges including speed, availability, and supporting many users. Bloomberg has invested in HBase to address these, seeing it as applicable to its "medium data" volumes. The document calls for continued work to further bolster HBase's reliability, take advantage of modern hardware, improve multi-tenancy, integrate Spark, and increase analytics efficiency. It expresses optimism for HBase's role in data platforms going forward.