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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.
Yahoo! is focused on making the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the globe. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices located throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific and the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.
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Cisco, changing the way the world works, lives, plays, and learns.
Datameer’s Hadoop-based Big Data Analytics solution makes it easy for business users to discover insights in any structured or unstructured data, regardless of its size or source. Datameer provides wizard-based data integration, schema-free, advanced analytics and sophisticated data visualization capabilities, is fully extensible, and can easily integrate into existing data infrastructures. Datameer’s Analytics App Market provides a jumpstart to a variety of common analytical tasks with packaged applications built by subject matter experts.
Big data is more than a matter of size; it is an opportunity to uncover insights in new and emerging types of data and enterprise information to shape business strategy. IBM’s big data platform complements your existing information infrastructure with sophisticated technologies including patented advanced analytics, enterprise-ready Hadoop, and stream computing to solve all your ‘big data’ problems and equip your organization with a competitive edge.
Karmasphere unlocks the potential of Hadoop by providing a unified, collaborative workspace for data analysts to work together on Big Data projects. Karmasphere brings data science to analysts by using SQL and automated workflow, including: ingestion, cleansing, table provisioning and running and scheduling queries, without IT assistance. Users can easily collaborate and share resources. Karmasphere integrates with traditional BI and existing applications and supports Hadoop distributions such as Amazon, Cloudera, Hortonworks and IBM. Learn more at www.karmasphere.com.
Kognitio extends not-only-SQL capability needed to employ Hadoop in an analytical environment. An in-memory MPP platform, it tightly integrates to enable ad-hoc queries in real-time with industry-standard SQL. Parallelizing standard binary languages like R and Python to run statistical and algorithmic functions in-memory, it is used by Data Scientists, BI professionals and Database Administrators to give fast access to data that persists in Hadoop and other data storage layers, enabling a Logical Data Warehouse model.
Microsoft’s Big Data Solution enables organizations to unlock actionable insights from structured, unstructured and streaming data. You can now deploy Hadoop with HDInsight Service in the cloud with the simplicity and manageability of Windows Azure. Easily combine your structured and unstructured with PolyBase for SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse. Glean new insights from all your data with familiar tools such as Excel and SharePoint using our Hive ODBC drivers and add-ins. Enrich your data by combining with the world’s data through Windows Azure Marketplace. Learn more at www.microsoft.com/bigdata
Platfora changes the way businesses use data. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, we put the power of big data in the hands of people who need it more, the end users. Platfora makes Hadoop amazing. For more details, visit www.platfora.com and follow us @platfora.
Splunk Inc. provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk® software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data coming from the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. More than 5,200 customers in over 90 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain Operational Intelligence that deepens business and customer understanding, improves uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk. Splunk Storm, a cloud-based subscription service, is used by organizations developing applications in the cloud.
Teradata is the world’s largest company focused on analytic data solutions through integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. Only Teradata gives organizations the advantage to transform data across the organization into actionable insights empowering leaders to think boldly and act decisively for the best decisions possible. Visit teradata.com.
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Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. Innovative Ethernet, storage, and software networking solutions for data center, campus, and service provider networks help reduce complexity and cost while enabling virtualization and cloud computing to increase business agility. To help ensure a complete solution, Brocade partners with world-class IT companies and provides comprehensive education, support, and professional services offerings. (www.brocade.com)
Cloudera is redefining data management with its Platform for Big Data, empowering enterprises to gain rich, actionable insights from all their data to derive business value and competitive advantage. With hundreds of customers across diverse markets, Cloudera is the category leader that sets the standard for Hadoop in the enterprise.
Continuuity delivers the industry’s first Big Data application fabric, making it fast and easy for developers to build, deploy, scale and manage Big Data apps. Continuuity provides building blocks with higher-level APIs, Datasets, tooling and documentation that make creating Big Data applications fast. The cloud-based Continuuity AppFabric™, the first scale-out application server for Hadoop and HBase, is built on Hadoop open source components and shields developers from the complexity of Big Data and cloud infrastructure.
DataTorrent has developed a real-time, stream-processing platform native to Hadoop that can coexist with batch processing. DataTorrent can process incoming streams at millions of events/sec with 24×7 uptime. It supports automatic load scaling, runtime application change, lossless stateful recovery, all with no application code change. Developers can build applications quickly using DataTorrent’s library of operators or write their own. DataTorrent works seamlessly with all Hadoop 2.0 distributions to enable real-time business monitoring and decision making.
Intel believes that every organization and individual in the world should be able to unlock the transformative potential of all data to enrich our lives through discovery and innovation, new business models, and consumer experiences. Intel is enabling its customers to obtain value from data by delivering robust open platforms that support innovation in analytics, from intelligent devices at the edge to servers, storage, and networks in the cloud.
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.
At Pivotal, our mission is to enable customers to build a new class of applications, leveraging big and fast data, and do all of this with the power of cloud-independence. Pivotal brings together selected technology, people and programs from EMC Greenplum and VMware including Pivotal HD, the world’s most powerful Apache Hadoop Distribution.
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 205,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
Syncsort provides data-intensive organizations across the big data continuum with a smarter way to collect and process the ever-expanding data avalanche. With thousands of deployments across all major platforms, including mainframe, Syncsort helps customers around the world to overcome the architectural limits of today’s ETL and Hadoop environments, empowering their organizations to drive better business outcomes in less time, with less resources and lower TCO. For more information visit www.syncsort.com/hadoop.
Talend provides integration that truly scales. From small projects to enterprise-wide implementations, Talend’s highly scalable data, application and business process integration platform maximizes information assets and development skillsets. Ready for big data, Talend’s flexible architecture adapts to future IT platforms. And Talend’s predictable subscription-based model guarantees that value scales, too. For more information, please visit: www.talend.com
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2012 revenues of $4.61 billion, VMware has more than 480,000 customers and 55,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, high-availability software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today’s data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco’s products are differentiated by the company’s patented, active-active replication technology, serving crucial high-availability requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management. Fortune Global 1000 companies, including AT&T, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton, rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.
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Today’s enterprises want to ask provocative data questions about things they don’t already know. Cirro’s Next Generation Data Federation platform allows you to ask questions previously impossible across all data sources without IT involvement. Cirro enables the access of varied data platforms, data types and environments using only SQL and works with existing BI investments enabling on-the-fly self-service data exploration and analysis across big data and traditional sources.
Compuware APM is the industry’s leading solution for monitoring and optimizing Hadoop. Powered by patented PurePath technology, this new generation of application performance management provides deep visibility into Map Reduce jobs with simple analysis and smart drill down to performance hot spots. Learn more at www.compuware.com/apm
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit www.dell.com/software .
Hadapt has developed the industry’s only Big Data analytic platform natively integrating SQL with Apache Hadoop. The unification of these traditionally segregated platforms enables customers to analyze all of their data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) in a single platform—no connectors, complexities or rigid structure. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
HStreaming makes Big Data actionable and monetizable. The solution enables to continuously analyze data in flight, gain instant insights, and take immediate action. Customers use HStreaming to analyze thousands of video feeds to identify security threats in real time, look across millions of transactions per second to stop fraud, and track a billion mobile devices to fill the best advertisement opportunities. HStreaming has patented technology and won multiple awards from the analyst community. For more information, visit www.hstreaming.com.
Impetus provides Big Data thought leadership and services, creating new ways of analyzing data to gain key business insights across enterprises. Impetus’ experience extends across the big data ecosystem including Hadoop, NoSQL, newsql, MPP databases, machine learning, and visualization. Impetus offers a Quick Start program, Architecture Advisory Services, Proof of Concept, and Implementation.
Infochimps was founded by data scientists and cloud computing experts with the belief that by effectively leveraging Big Data, enterprises make better decisions. The company’s solutions make it faster, easier and far less complex to build and manage Big Data applications and quickly deliver actionable insights. With Infochimps Cloud, enterprises benefit from the fastest way to develop and deploy Big Data applications in public, virtual private and private clouds.
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 200 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the Internet. The company has a diversified business model with revenues coming from its talent solutions, marketing solutions and premium subscriptions businesses. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox products optimize data center performance and deliver industry-leading bandwidth, scalability, power conservation and cost-effectiveness while converging multiple legacy network technologies into one future-proof architecture. The company offers innovative solutions that address a wide range of markets including HPC, enterprise, mega warehouse data centers, cloud computing, Internet and Web 2.0.
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of products and services. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and speed product development, so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
ParAccel accelerates analytics and helps companies accelerate, innovate, and compete. The ParAccel Analytic Platform combines an analytic database with advanced extensibility and integration technology to deliver big analytics anytime, anywhere. Fortune 1000 customers are testing the bounds of unconstrained analytics with the most prolific, most powerful, most expansive analytic platform.
Pentaho is building the future of business analytics. Pentaho’s open source heritage drives our continued innovation in a modern, integrated, embeddable platform built for accessing all data sources. With support for all of the leading Hadoop distributions, NoSQL databases and high performance analytic databases, Pentaho provides the broadest support for big data analytics, as well as integration and orchestration of big data and traditional sources. For more information visit pentahobigdata.com or call +1 866-660-7555.
Persistent Systems is a global company specializing in software product and technology services. Persistent is an innovation partner for the world’s largest technology brands, leading enterprises and pioneering start-ups. Persistent’s 6,750 employees develop solutions in four key next-generation technology areas: Cloud, Mobility, Analytics, and Collaboration. With over 50 engagements, Persistent has been at the forefront of Big Data. Our Hadoop competency center focuses on programming, optimizing clusters, developing connectors & building applications using Hadoop.
Qubole is building the next generation Cloud data platform, hiding the complexity commonly associated with storing and managing data. Instead, Qubole provides a fast, easy path to analysis and business insight that can be leveraged by users of various skill levels and experience. Qubole Data Service is a Software-as-a-Service analytics platform running on leading cloud offerings like AWS. Data analysts, data scientists and ETL engineers can get started analyzing data in minutes using Qubole.
RainStor is the only enterprise Big Data database that consistently delivers 90% cost savings for the world’s largest organizations laser focused on reducing cost, complexity and compliance risk. RainStor is storage agnostic and can run on-premise or in the cloud and natively on Hadoop enabling faster time to value. The largest enterprises use RainStor to predictably scale, improve operational efficiency and meet compliance requirements while saving millions in costs. For more info: www.rainstor.com.
Rocket Fuel is the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions that transform digital-media campaigns into self-optimizing engines that learn and adapt in real time, and deliver outstanding results from awareness to sales. Over 700 of the world’s most successful marketers trust Rocket Fuel to power their advertising across display, video, mobile, and social media. Rocket Fuel is based in Redwood Shores, California, and has offices worldwide including New York, London, Toronto, and Hamburg.
Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing leader. Our social and mobile cloud technologies—including our flagship sales and CRM applications—help companies connect with customers, partners, and employees in entirely new ways.
Dallas-based Sendero Business Services is a strategic partner to companies seeking to enhance their business processes, maximize productivity, and gain a clear path to success in an increasingly complex marketplace. With a full suite of strategy, business management, human performance, and technology consulting services, Sendero provides the expertise clients need to solve their business problems. Our technical capabilities include Big Data solutions, application development, business intelligence, systems integration and technical architecture. Learn more at www.senderocorp.com.
Simba Technologies enables access and analytics from any data, anywhere, any time. As industry’s recognized expert in real time, standards based connectivity, our software is the glue between applications and data sources. Simba connects Business Intelligence (BI), Analytics, Reporting Tools and other Applications according to established data standards such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET OData and XMLA. Leading companies worldwide like Hortonworks, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Splunk, Tableau, Oracle, and SAP trust Simba with their connections.
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 10,000 organizations, including some of the world’s largest enterprises, rely on Tableau Software.
TrueCar drives transparency in the automotive retail marketplace to improve the way people buy cars. To do that we process a lot of data from a vast array of sources and in many different formats. Our Platform team is skilled in high volume RDMS, Hadoop and data science. We’re looking to add the best and brightest to the team. If you think in petabytes and not terabytes, talk to us.
Twitter is a communication platform that instantly connects people everywhere to what’s most meaningful to them. With 400 million Tweets per day and more than 200 million active users, there is something for everyone on Twitter, no matter what you’re interested in or where you are in the world. Twitter can be accessed on the web, on smartphones and on the simplest of feature phones.
Zaloni is a leading provider of Hadoop solutions, focused on solving the most complex large-scale data analytic challenges. Zaloni builds agile Big Data solutions coupled with rich and interactive data visualization. Our offerings include end-to-end design, build, and deployment of Big Data platform services. Zaloni’s Big Data solutions and platforms create efficiency within an organization’s workforce and promote enriching experiences throughout its business and with its customers.
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