Hadoop Night Featuring Hortonworks and Pivotal HAWQ

For this session we will be leveraging Pivotal's strong partnership with Hortonworks to put together a top notch Hadoop night.

From Hortonworks we have Eyad Garelnabi speaking. Eyad is a Big Data Solutions Engineer working at Hortonworks and is based out of Toronto. He is currently focused on helping clients understand the value of the hadoop ecosystem and guiding them through their Big Data journey from a technical perspective. Eyad will be covering:

• Hortonworks Products

• Set up of HDP

• HDP Architecture review

• The Ecosystem and Tools

• Common Use Cases

http://hortonworks.com/hdp/whats-new/

The second part of the evening will cover Pivotal HAWQ ( http://pivotal.io/big-data/pivotal-hdb ). HAWQ was recently open sourced and can be found here:

http://hawq.incubator.apache.org/

In this session we will review/cover:

• Set Up and Configuration

• Architecture

• Best Use Cases For HAWQ

• HAWQ Demo

As usual there will be food and snack. There might also be some Hortonworks and Pivotal swag.

More details to follow....