Big Data, Big Challenges: To Hadoop or Not to Hadoop?

To Hadoop or not to Hadoop, that is the question? Industry expert, Steve Sarsfield, will address use cases where businesses can leverage the benefits of Hadoop. Attend and learn Big Data best practices that can help businesses in their Big Data journey. Also discussed will be the potential areas where the core Hadoop offering fails to bridge the data analytics gap and how critical services like Vertica can be.

We will actively engage the audience by asking what your Big Data challenges are and aligning them with a right-fit solution.

Attend and Win!

• If you register and attend, you will receive a complimentary copy of Steve Sarsfields’ book "The Data Governance Imperative".

• There will also be a raffle for one HP Chromebook14.

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• HP is not a sponsor of this giveaway. Applicable to attendees only. Attendees will be required to attach their business card to evaluation forms in order to participate in the giveaway drawing.

Speaker

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Steve Sarsfield

Speaker Bio: Steve Sarsfield is a Big Data expert, speaker, author and blogger. He is the author of the book "The Data Governance Imperative". Steve has more than 20 years of experience in big analytics, Big Data and data governance. Steve blogs at http://data-governance.blogspot.com/ or follow him on Twitter: @stevesarsfield.

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