NoSQL and Big Data Vlab event at Stanford

 

The Vlab at Stanford put together another great event  on NoSQL and Big Data. 

Here is the description from their web-site. 

Event Description 

  

0 to 50 million users in 50 days? Disruptive scaling is painless with NoSQL.

Even enterprises have taken notice. They are using the same technology that propelled Google, Facebook and Amazon to massive success by analyzing petabytes of data from sensors, social media and commerce demographics.

NoSQL ("Not only SQL") enables queries and analytics against "unstructured" data, which allows for rapid prototyping and agile development of business intelligence applications. This is in stark contrast to the case where IT has to approve, fund, and develop every change to their "structured" database applications, and where scaling up requires a lengthy budgeting process.

Imagine: If power companies had real-time analytics from all the log files in the grid to improve response time in emergencies. Or if the sales team had insightful analytics about trouble tickets or other call center issues... before they got an escalation from their customer's executives.

Worth of this ‘Big Data’ market is projected to reach $53 billion in five years, and NoSQL is open-source. How can startups cash in, and how will incumbents respond? Big Data and Open Source Software powered the massive disruption we call Web2.0, and continues to power most of the big name IPOs of 2012. We are just getting started.

• James Phillips - Director, Co-Founder & SVP of Products at Couchbase
• Max Schireson - President at 10gen, the company that develops and supports MongoDB
• Doug Cutting - Chairman of the Board of Directors at Apache Software Foundation, Creator of Hadoop
• Andrew Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President of Database Server Technologies at Oracle
• Ravi Mohan, Managing Director of Shasta Ventures

With Oracle in the panel, the event was very controversial.  

To learn more about vlab go to http://www.vlab.org/


Also, we are hiring BIg Data developers! 


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