We are just two weeks away from first ever Hadoop Summit Europe! With all of the final preparations coming together we thought we would highlight some of the not to be missed activities in and around the event. Here are 10 great reasons to attend! 1)   Great track content – there are 35 informative sessions [...]

Today’s interview features Steve Loughran, chair of the Hadoop Futures track. Steve is a member of the Hortonworks technical staff, working for CTO Eric Baldeschwieler. In this role, Steve explores leading edge options for the Hadoop platform. Tell us about the Hadoop Futures track. We’re looking at the future of Hadoop – what is coming [...]

Today’s interview features Lars George, chair of the Integrating Hadoop track. Lars is the Director EMEA Services for Cloudera, where he manages the team of pre- and post-sales services staff at Cloudera EMEA. Tell us about the Integrating Hadoop track. An essential task introducing Apache Hadoop to any organization is to make it fit into [...]

Today’s interview features Isabel Drost, chair of the Applied Hadoop track. Like many in the Apache Hadoop community, Isabel wears a couple of hats. She develops software at Nokia Gate 5 GmbH as part of the category search team for the Here maps product. She is also a member of the Apache Software Foundation, co-founder [...]

Today marks the first interview with the Hadoop Summit track chairs. We sat down with Evert Lammerts, chair of the Operating Hadoop track. For the past two years, Evert has been responsible for defining and building the Hadoop & Big Data services for the academic community in the Netherlands at SURFsara. Tell us about the [...]

Today’s interview features Joydeep Sen Sarma, co-founder of Qubole. Joydeep and his co-presenter Siva Narayanan, will be presenting Cloud-Friendly Hadoop and Hive, a discussion about how organizations can now easily analyze Hadoop data in the cloud. Tell us about your presentation. Joydeep: We’ll talk about the different challenges and opportunities that a cloud environment provides and how we have [...]

Today’s interview features Steve Watt, consulting software engineer for Red Hat. Steve will be presenting Optimizing Your Infrastructure and Operating Systems for Hadoop, a discussion aimed at helping organization to optimally design and configure their Apache Hadoop platforms. Tell us about your presentation. Steve: Hadoop is a fairly rapidly evolving technology and I feel the accessible [...]

Today’s interview features Jason Dai, Engineering Director and Principal Engineer for Intel SSG (Software and Services Group). Jason will be co-presenting How to Weigh an Elephant, a discussion on benchmarking big data systems. Jason’s co-presenter will be Vin Sharma, a software strategist at Intel responsible for planning and marketing Intel contributions to open source datacenter software [...]

Today’s interview features Mikhail Petrenko, Senior Data Architect at Adobe. Mikhail will be presenting Big Data Sampling: a Way to Make all of Your Data Useful Again. Tell us about your presentation. Mikhail: I feel efficient sampling on Apache Hadoop is underutilized by the Big Data community. I hope to give business, product and data specialists enough [...]

Today’s interview features Alasdair Anderson, Global Head of Architecture for HSBC’s HSS IT division within the HSBC Global Banking and Markets. Alasdair will be presenting Enterprise Integration of Disruptive Technologies, an interesting look at how established enterprises can introduce Apache Hadoop into their environments. Tell us about your presentation. Alasdair: My talk is as non-technical as I can make [...]

Today marks the inaugural blog featuring interviews with some of the upcoming presenters for Hadoop World Europe. Kicking things off are Clemens Neudecker of the National Library of the Netherlands and Sven Schlarb of the Austrian National Library. Clemens and Sven will be presenting The Elephant in the Library; a unique look at the role Apache [...]

We’re happy to announce that sessions and the schedule for Hadoop Summit Europe are now available. Hadoop Summit is taking place in March 20-21, 2013 at Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam. The two-day event will feature 35 sessions given by leading Hadoop experts representing more than 25 different organizations (Adobe, Cloudera, eBay, Facebook, Hortonworks, HP, HSBC, [...]

Thank you to the Apache Hadoop community for casting 8,480 total votes during the Hadoop Summit Community Choice voting process. This is a new record for the Community Choice program, exceeding the number of votes received for the 2012 Hadoop Summit Conference hosted in San Jose. As we announced earlier, the sessions that received the [...]

Thank you to everybody who submitted an abstract for Hadoop Summit Europe. We received an incredible response from our Call for Abstracts reaching over 200 submissions. With such an array of great content to choose from, the agenda is bound to include something for everybody. And now you have an opportunity to weigh in on [...]

Track Chairs have been named for Hadoop Summit Europe. Track Chairs will, in turn, select their track committees who, as a team, will decide which sessions are to be presented at Hadoop Summit. Track Chairs are as follows: Operating Hadoop – Evert Lammerts, SARA I joined Sara as a technical consultant in October 2008. In [...]

Hadoop Summit jumps the pond. Hortonworks and Yahoo! are pleased to bring this highly successful community-focused event to Europe. This will be the first European conference focused exclusively on accelerating the enterprise adoption of Apache Hadoop. Join the vibrant Apache Hadoop community of developers, data scientists, data architects and solution providers at the Beurs van [...]