'Hadoop as a Service: Is the market now? Is Hadoop ready for the cloud?

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Hadoop has penetrated a wide range of industries like healthcare, manufacturing, financial services and retail in addition to the early adopters in web, social and e-commerce. Hadoop has enabled these organizations to collect, analyze and act on data at an unprecedented scale and cost effectiveness. While the early adopters had the skill, will and need to build, maintain and operate their own Hadoop clusters, the viability of sustained investments in in-house Hadoop operations capabilities does not apply across the wider spectrum of today’s customers. This has opened Hadoop-as-a-Service markets with a wide range of vendors like IaaS, hosted service providers and start-ups offering alternatives to in-house Hadoop operations.

In this panel discussion we explore the facets of this market in the context of its timing and numerous post-Hadoop advancements in batch & real time analytics. We discuss customer concerns like data gravity, multi-tenancy, security, resource management and SLAs.

Meet the speakers:

Elizabeth Dwoskin, Reporter The Wall Street Journal (moderator)

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Elizabeth Dwoskin writes about technology from The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau. She covers the growing world of big data across many industries, from health care to politics to advertising. Topics include privacy, innovation, and how predictions and algorithms are changing the way we live. Previously, Ms. Dwoskin was a staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, covering policy and politics in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Dwoskin has a B.A. from Columbia University and has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is a two-time finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.

Jai Ranganathan, Senior Director of Product Management, Cloudera

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Jai Ranganathan is a Senior Director of Product at Cloudera, where he is responsible for developing roadmap for ensuring that Cloudera software works well in the cloud. On nights and weekends, he also oversees planning for core platform components - MapReduce, Spark & YARN. Before Cloudera, he spent a decade at VMware, where among other things he was one of the developers on vMotion, storage vMotion, and the distributed management framework for vSphere.

David Chaiken, Chief Technology Officer, Altiscale

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David Chaiken has been building large scale distributed systems for more than 25 years. He currently works at Altiscale, a start-up in Palo Alto that runs Hadoop as a service for other companies. Before Altiscale, David served as the Chief Architect of Yahoo, where he led teams that developed consumer advertising and media systems with Hadoop at their core. Over his career, David has also built voice search products for consumers, mobile enterprise applications, network management systems, project management software, a large-scale multiprocessor architecture, a tablet computer, and four or so other information appliances. He has managed both hardware and software development teams, but prefers individual contributor roles. David has been hacking since his parents sat him down in front of an IBM card punch. His favorite technologies include the RSA encryption algorithm, the C programming language, the ARM instruction set architecture, the CentOS distribution of Linux, and the build-on-grid-push-to-serving design pattern. In 1994, David earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.

Ashish Thusoo, CEO at Qubole

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Before co-founding Qubole Ashish ran Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team; under his leadership the team built one of the largest data processing and analytics platforms in the world. This platform achieved not just the bold aim of making data accessible to analysts, engineers and data scientists, but drove the “big data” revolution. In the process of scaling Facebook’s Big Data infrastructure, he helped drive the creation of a host of tools, technologies and templates that are used industry wide today.

Lance Olson, Partner Group Program Manager, Microsoft

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Lance Olson is a Partner Group Program Manager responsible for HDInsight, Microsoft’s Hadoop-as-a-Service offering in Azure. Lance has worked extensively on database, business intelligence, and developer technologies for enterprise customers over the last 20 years. When not thinking about data, Lance enjoys mountaineering near his home in the Pacific Northwest.

Agenda:

• 6.00 - 6.45pm: Networking, registration, food & drinks
• 6.45 - 7.00pm: Introductions
• 7.00 - 7.20pm: Speakers' presentations
• 7.20 - 8.10pm: Panel Discussion
• 8.10 - 8.30 pm: Q&A session