BigData : Hadoop and noSQL in the enterprise

I am very excited to have Bruce Nelson come and speak about Hadoop and noSQL in the enterprise. Bruce is a Big Data Evangelist and has a ton of incredible experience. He is coming to give a clear and relevant introduction to Hadoop and noSQL, especially for those of you coming from an enterprise environment. If you are new to Hadoop and noSQL or want to hear a great introduction to the topics please come to our meetup. It should be a great one!

I look forward to seeing you there!

Agenda

· 6:00 – 6:30 – Socialize over food and drink

· 6:30 – 6:45 Announcements, Upcoming Events

· 6:45 – 8:00 Bruce Nelson - BigData - Hadoop and noSQL in the enterprise

· 8:15 - ?:?? Continued Socializing

BigData : Hadoop and noSQL in the enterprise.

The emergence and evolution of Hadoop and noSQL in the enterprise has brought about a paradigm shift to our industry as significant as Codd and Date were with the relational database. BigData will be examined and explained along with a number of different use cases and data stories that will help explain and bring clarity to this new paradigm. Hadoop platform architecture and new and upcoming developments will be discussed along with going into detail of the Hadoop HDFS myths and realities. Will take a look Oracle’s entry into the BigData ecosystem including Oracle BigData Appliance, Oracle connectors for Hadoop and R, Endeca Information Discovery and noSQL DB.

About the speaker

Bruce Nelson, Principal Sales Consultant, Big Data Evangelist and Hadoop and noSQL SME for Oracle Corporation. Bruce has over 27 years of experience in the IT industry with a focus on new technologies like Hadoop and noSQL and high performance database systems including Oracle Exadata, MPP and HPCC systems. Before Oracle, Bruce was the Director of Database Administration and Engineering at Shopzilla.com, VP of Data Systems Architecture at Countrywide Financial where he drove initiatives to bring Oracle and Linux into Countrywide and served as an early adopter of Apache Hadoop. As a systems architect at Yahoo!, Bruce led several pioneering design projects including early adoption of Oracle DB and RAC on Linux and commodity hardware.