Big Data (Part 1) : Overview

Big Data has become the new buzzword like "Agile" and "Cloud". Like those two others, it's a transformative technology. We'll be discussing:

• What is it?
• Technology key words
• HDFS
• Hadoop
• MapReduce
• ElasticSearch

This will be part 1 of 2 (at least). This first talk will not be overly technical. We'll go over the concepts and terms you'll encounter when considering a big data solution.