Sponsors

Teradata
Teradata is the world's largest company focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics and business applications. Our powerful solutions portfolio and database are the foundation on which we've built our leadership position in business intelligence and are designed to address any business or technology need for companies of all sizes. Only Teradata gives you the ability to integrate your organization's data, optimize your business processes, and accelerate new insights like never before. The power unleashed from your data brings confidence to your organization and inspires leaders to think boldly and act decisively for the best decisions possible. Learn more at teradata.com.

Cleversafe
Cleversafe has created a breakthrough technology that solves petabyte and beyond big data storage problems. This solution drives up to 90% of the storage costs out of the business while enabling secure and reliable global access and collaboration. Cleversafe is combining the power of Cleversafe's Dispersed Storage® System with Hadoop MapReduce on the same platform. This solution replaces the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) which relies on 3 copies to protect data thereby significantly improving reliability and allowing analytics at a scale previously unattainable. Many of the world's largest data repositories rely on Cleversafe for limitless data storage.

EMC
EMC provides Big Data solutions that transform your business. EMC helps you gain unprecedented value through real-time connectivity and analysis of large data sets that live inside your organization and the Internet. EMC's Big Data solutions are architected for storage elasticity and seemingly infinite scale. It combines a unified analytics platform from Greenplum, a division of EMC, to access and collaborate on both structured and unstructured data, with an actionable engine that delivers knowledge in the context of decision-making. The result: a data-driven, predictive enterprise that gains greater insight and value from data. To learn more, go to www.emc.com/bigdata

Splunk
Splunk® Inc. provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the massive machine data continuously generated by the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 4,000 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in more than 80 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk. To learn more please visit www.splunk.com/company.

Hortonworks
Hortonworks is a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the preeminent open source platform for storing, managing and analyzing big data. Our distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform powered by Apache Hadoop, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks is the trusted source for information on Hadoop, and together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use. Hortonworks provides unmatched technical support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators, and technology vendors. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.

Basho
Basho Technologies is the world's leading distributed systems company. Basho's flagship technology, Riak, is the most powerful open source database you'll ever run in production. Riak is made to scale in a boring, horizontal fashion, and was built with ops professionals in mind. That's why companies like Comcast, Boeing, Yammer, and Voxer trust it with their data.

Couchbase
Couchbase is the NoSQL database leader, with production deployments at AOL, Deutsche Post, NTT Docomo, Orbitz, Salesforce.com, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Vimeo, Zynga and hundreds of other household names worldwide. Couchbase Server is the simple, fast, elastic NoSQL database that delivers a more scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database technology. It is particularly well suited for web applications deployed on virtualized or cloud infrastructures, and for applications requiring real-time data synchronization between mobile devices and the cloud. Couchbase is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund and North Bridge Venture Partners.

DataSift
You're thinking - not yet another big data provider, right? We're all about a cloud-platform for social data and social insights. Our platform gulps down the twitter firehose and other social data sources to help you filter, augment and create data feeds and insights for your apps or business. We enrich social data so you know the sentiment, influence, geolocation, etc of conversations. And we're about to launch historical twitter data so you can do trend analysis. Best of all we have super-fast developer APIs and transparent pricing so you can get started today. Drop by for a demo and signup!

Digital Science
Digital Science is a new technology company started out of Macmillan Publishers, providing tools for researchers. From intelligent knowledge discovery tools to software applications for the laboratory and decision-support systems for managers, Digital Science combines world-class technology with a resolute focus on scientists and those who support the research process. For more information, visit http://www.digital-science.com or follow them at @digitalsci.

Feedzai
FeedZai Pulse™: Real-Time Big Data, Made Easy! is a revolutionary next-generation business intelligence product that combines the power of its real-time data processing engine (Pulse™) with the scalability of big data processing solutions such as Cassandra™ or Hadoop™ and the predictive analytics of R in a single unified view of past, present and future. Launched in May 2011, FeedZai Pulse attracted clients from 4 continents and processes data from over 90 countries. Pulse processes events at rates of up to tens of thousands of messages per second, while comparing against months of continuously updated historical data in self-serving business dashboards. FeedZai was named a Cool Vendor by Gartner in 2011.

MapR Technologies
MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop, making managing and analyzing Big Data a reality for more business users. The award-winning MapR Distribution brings unprecedented dependability, speed and ease-of-use to Hadoop. Combined with data protection and business continuity, MapR enables customers to harness the power of Big Data analytics. Leading companies including Amazon, Cisco, EMC and Google partner with MapR to deliver an enterprise-grade Hadoop solution. MapR's open, enterprise-grade distribution for Hadoop, is also easy to start using. Visit www.mapr.com to try the VM demo version, install on a cluster or use in the cloud.

ScraperWiki
ScraperWiki is a web-based platform - or data hub - where data scientists can write scripts to get, clean and analyse data online. All your code and data are stored together, so you never lose your files, and you can schedule scripts to run hourly or daily with the click of a button. But best of all, our built-in API means you can get your data out in a bunch of formats, with just a bit of SQL. ScraperWiki was founded in 2009, won the Knight News Challenge in 2011 and is funded by Channel 4 and EV Venture Capital.

Tableau Software
Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Tableau's award-winning software delivers fast analytics, visualization and rapid-fire business intelligence on data of any size, format, or subject. The result? Anyone can get answers from data quickly, with no programming required. From executive dashboards to ad-hoc reports, Tableau lets you share mobile and browser-based, interactive analytics in a few clicks. More than 9,000 organizations, including some of the world's largest enterprises, rely on Tableau Software. Learn more at: www.tableausoftware.com.

Talend
Talend is the recognized leader in open source integration solutions, providing a holistic integration platform that addresses data, application and process integration through a unified technology stack and supports organizations in their shift toward the Cloud and Big Data. Talend's solutions portfolio includes data integration (operational data integration and ETL for Business Intelligence), data quality, master data management (MDM), enterprise service bus (ESB) and business process management (BPM). Unlike proprietary, closed solutions, which can only be afforded by the largest and wealthiest organizations, Talend makes middleware solutions available to organizations of all sizes, for all integration needs. Visit us at www.talend.com