Real-time data analysis with Storm and Beacon

Title: Real-time data analysis with Storm and Beacon

Speaker: Nick Poore, IBM Emerging Technologies, jStart Team

Storm and IBM's jStart Beacon - Storm is an open source distributed realtime computation system. Storm allows a developer to easily build scalable and fault-tolerant applications that will process streaming data from multiple data sources. Storm does processing in realtime what Hadoop does in batch process. jStart Beacon is web based application designed for line of business users that need to build Storm applications without writing code. Beacon uses a drag and drop UI look and feel to allow a user to design their application from their data inputs and have these big data apps up and running in minutes.

In this talk we will go over some of what Storm does and its similarities/differences to Hadoop and we will also discuss how IBM is using Storm to delivery big data analytics applications built by line of business users.

More info about jStart Beacon can be found at: www.ibm.com/beacon

About the Speaker

Nick Poore is a Managing Consultant in the IBM Emerging Technologies, jStart team. He has been at IBM for 12 years working as a software developer and architect. He also has several patents filed by IBM some in the areas of virtual world ecosystems, javascript optimization, mash up syndication, and security.

Nick holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a Mathematics minor from The University of Tennessee and a MBA from Duke University.