Hadoop Ecosystem

We're very pleased to announce three great and very renowned speakers for this upcoming meetup.

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Talks:

• An architectural overview of MapR, M.C. Srivas, MapR (http://www.mapr.com)

• HBase and Impala - Use Cases for fast SQL queries, Lars George, Cloudera (http://www.cloudera.com)

• Recommendations as search, Ted Dunning, MapR (http://www.mapr.com)

Note: The location may be changed depending on registration. We'll keep you updated.

About the speakers:

M.C. Srivas is CTO and co-founder of MapR Technologies. Before co-founding MapR he ran one of the major search infrastructure teams at Google where GFS, BigTable and MapReduce were used extensively. Srivas was Chief Architect at Spinnaker Networks (now NTAP) which built the industry's fastest single-box NAS filer, as well as the industry's most scalable clustered filer. Previously, he managed the Andrew File System (AFS) engineering team at Transarc (now IBM).

Lars George is EMEA Chief Architect at Cloudera and advises companys worldwide on issues related to Hadoop and HBase. He's also been CTO and co-founder of WorldLingo, where he focused on automated translation, machine learning, language processing and scalable web technologies. Lars is the author of HBase - The definitive guide (O'Reilly).

Ted Dunning is Chief Application Architect at MapR. He's held Chief Scientist positions at Veoh Networks, ID Analytics and at MusicMatch (now Yahoo Music). Ted is responsible for building the most advanced identity theft detection system on the planet, as well as one of the largest peer-assisted video distribution systems and ground-breaking music and video recommendations systems. He contributes to several Apache projects including Hadoop, Zookeeper and Hbase. He is also a committer for Apache Mahout.

Sponsoring:

comSysto and MapR are supporting the meetup with location and drinks.