FREE EVENT! Hadoop and Mainframes: Crazy, or Crazy Like a Fox?

Hadoop and Mainframes: Crazy, or Crazy Like a Fox?

60% of global enterprise transactions are processed and stored on mainframe servers, resulting in a wealth of data waiting to be tapped. But how? How will ETL change? When does it make sense to run Hadoop on a mainframe? How can you extract mainframe data into Hadoop on distributed x86 clusters? We’ll examine the findings of Gigaom’s report, “Bringing Hadoop to the Mainframe”.

Presenter: Veristorm, VP of Marketing, Mike Combs

Mike Combs has led product management and marketing for over two decades in companies focused on large-scale network performance management and cloud computing software, including NetScout, Micromuse, IBM and Rivermeadow. In monitoring millions of ports and devices for carrier networks, he saw first-hand the possibilities in leveraging virtualization and distributed computing.

This event is being sponsored by Veristorm and IBM