Microsoft’s Big Play for Big Data – June 11th, 2012
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Microsoft’s Big Play for Big Data
Big Data entails collecting and analyzing large volumes of data obtained from Web, social media, scientific and other pools of fast-growing event-driven data. Relational databases are rarely employed in big data scenarios, so using SQL Server for big data can be tricky. In response, Microsoft has announced its planned implementation of Windows Server and Windows Azure implementations of Hadoop, the open source MapReduce engine widely used in Big Data implementations. And the plot thickens as Microsoft has also announced its plan to fit SQL Server business intelligence (BI) tools on top of Hadoop, to make the analysis part of Big Data work with familiar and accessible Microsoft technologies. Come to this session to get an overview of Big Data, Hadoop and the Microsoft BI stack integration. See how your skills can be applied to this rapidly growing part of the industry.
Presenter: Andrew Brust
Andrew Brust is Founder and CEO of Blue Badge Insights, an analysis, strategy and advisory firm serving Microsoft customers and partners, and ZDNet’s “Big on Data” blogger.http://www.zdnet.com/blog/big-data Brust is also a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP; an advisor to the New York Technology Council; and co-author of “Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008″ (Microsoft Press, 2008). Brust is a frequent speaker at industry events and is a columnist for Visual Studio Magazine. He’s been a participant in the Microsoft ecosystem for over 15 years, has worked closely with both Microsoft’s Redmond-based corporate team and field organization for much of the last 10 and is a member of several Microsoft “insiders” groups that supply him with insight around important technologies out of Redmond.
Date/Time:
6-11-2012 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
Location:
Microsoft NYC offices, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10104
