Enterprise Cloud Summit - Big Data

Instructor:
Jeremy Edberg
Lead Cloud Reliability Engineer,
Netflix

Monday, May 7th, 2012, 8:30am - 4:30pm

Every year, humanity generates more information than before. We're only now learning how to harness it, putting powerful new processing architectures to work to glean insights from the petabytes of data we have on customers, markets, competitors, and employees. For IT this means two things: a new role as the go-to analyst in charge of crunching this information, and a new set of architectures that can store and crunch all of the information while staying within the law.

Data is going to be your biggest issue to deal with in the coming years. It's what needs to be replicated to stay running. It's what leaks when there's a security breach. It's what costs money to move around. And it's the cause of latency and usability issues. Compared to data, computing is easy. And as computing becomes a commodity in an era of clouds, we need to understand what it means to live in a Big Data world.

The Big Data Day is a new addition to ECS, giving enterprise IT professionals an inside look at the data revolution. We'll look at tools like Hadoop, Cassandra, Mongo, Riak, and R, as well as blended architectures that put Big Data alongside traditional Business Intelligence, helping business to get answers faster, scale better, and transition to a data-driven organization. We'll show you how to analyze your data more quickly, how to use that speed to spot upcoming trends, and how to prevent problems before they become problems. And we’ll look at use cases that show how companies are getting an edge in their markets through Big Data approaches.

Who it’s for

• Data warehouse and BI professionals who want to know how Big Data tools like Hadoop fit into their toolbox.
• Developers whose applications and aspirations are stymied by the limitations of traditional storage and processing.
• Architects designing large-scale, real-time applications.
• IT executives involved in governance, compliance, and creating organizations that run on data.
• Executives who want to use technology to improve their bottom line.

What they'll learn

• A taxonomy of Big Data and next-generation storage solutions.
• Deep dives into some of the leading Big Data stacks from industry insiders.
• Practical steps enterprises can take to embrace Big Data.
• The difference between Big Data frameworks and services.
• What's possible—and what's difficult—for companies that adopt Big Data approaches to storage and analysis.
• How Big Data can make your business more successful.