James Markarian Keynote: The Future of the Data Management Market, and What that Means to You
James Markarian will discuss historical trends and technology shifts in data management and how the data deluge has contributed to the emergence of Apache Hadoop. James will showcase examples of how forward-looking organizations are leveraging Hadoop to maximize their Return on Data to improve insight and operations. By sharing his perspective about this next major analytics platform, James will discuss why Hadoop is poised to change the face of analytics and data management. Finally he will challenge the Hadoop ecosystem to work together to close the remaining technology gaps in Hadoop.
Doug Cutting Keynote
Doug Cutting, co-creator of Apache Hadoop, will discuss the current state of the Apache Hadoop open source ecosystem and its trajectory for the future. Doug will highlight trends and changes happening throughout the platform, including new additions and important improvements. He will address the implications of how different components of the stack work together to form a coherent and efficient platform. He will draw particular attention to Big Top, a project initiated by Cloudera to build a community around the packaging and interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects with the goal of providing a consistent and interoperable framework. Cutting will also discuss the latest additions in CDH4 and the platform roadmap for CDH.
Doug Cutting
Architect
Cloudera
Doug is the creator of numerous successful open source projects, including Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop. Doug joined Cloudera in 2009 from Yahoo! where he was a key member of the team that built and deployed a production Hadoop storage and analysis cluster for mission-critical business analytics. Doug holds a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and sits on the Board of the Apache Software Foundation.
James Markarian
Executive Vice President and CTO
Informatica
James Markarian serves as executive vice president and chief technology officer at Informatica, with responsibility for the strategic direction of Informatica products, including the delivery of the Informatica Platform as well as leading the Corporate Development organization. Previously, Markarian held the role of general manager of the Data Integration Business Unit, where he led the delivery of both the flagship PowerCenter product and the Informatica Platform.