Guns, Drugs and Oil: Attacking Big Problems with Big Data
Guns, Drugs and Oil_ Attacking Big Problems with Big Data Presentation 1 [PPT]
Tools for attacking big data problems originated at consumer internet companies, but the number and variety of big data problems have spread across industries and around the world. I’ll present a brief summary of some of the critical social and business problems that we’re attacking with the open source Apache Hadoop platform.
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Mike Olson
Cloudera
Michael Olson is currently CEO of Cloudera, the company delivering an enterprise-ready data management platform based on Apache Hadoop. He was formerly CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as Vice President for Embedded Technologies after Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business roles at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
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