Apache: Big Data 2015

An update on the Apache Software Foundation and an overview of its projects. A quick look at how the ASF works and the key events affecting the foundation in recent history.

 

Dirk Duellmann, deputy leader of the data and storage services group in the IT department at CERN, will discuss the large scale (100 PB) data management and analysis infrastructure for physics data at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

He will compare the established scientific workflow with more recent deployments of hadoop ecosystem components at CERN, which are rapidly gaining popularity for computing infrastructure analytics / optimisation studies and as an alternative to traditional
database deployments. The presentation will conclude with an outlook on how big data analysis experience from scientific and mainstream applications may further complement each other.

Hear from Josh Baer, Hadoop Product Owner at Spotify on how Apache drives Spotify's music recommendations.

Gary Richardson, Head of Data Engineering for KPMG in the UK will discuss strategies for keeping the elephant in room; moving from proof of concept to full scale enterprise Hadoop adoption.

This panel will be an opportunity for members of the Open Data Platform Initiative to share the benefits of ODP with the Apache community.

The focus of this talk will be to help the community and the many startups around the field
reduce the friction in the ecosystem, spreading their ideas and their code faster, and reducing the time to commercial success. 

This era of IT is full of stories of fast growing startups disrupting
industry stalwarts leveraging big data new user experiences built from
open source software. While these startups merely need to find
engineers with the talent to build these new services, existing
enterprises need to find this expertise while helping bridge their
existing business and customer relationships into these new
experiences.

Large enterprise customers turn to Pivotal to create innovation
platforms because they recognize Pivotal's leadership in open source
and openly governed communities, ranging from the self-governed Spring
Source community, to creating the Cloud Foundry Foundation, and most
recently making some significant contributions of new projects to ASF.

Hear the latest about how Pivotal is working with ASF to grow
in-memory computing with Apache Geode, SQL on Hadoop with Apache HAWQ,
Data Science with Apache MADlib. Find out about the Open Data Platform
(ODP) and how this community of communities enhances the core mission
of ASF for the betterment of big data technology users.

In this keynote, IBM's Anjul Bhambhri will highlight how Spark is stretching the boundaries of big data thinking, and how IBM is contributing to the movement.