Dear Members, There is always a lull before the storm – we did not have any meetups in the month of March only because we were planning for a whole day event on June 7th at the Computer History Museum from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. The whole day event will focus on getting real with Big Data. No fluff, no hand waving, no jargon; just the straight facts about Big Data as it applies to businesses worldwide today. T ...

 Who: You're invited to WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop Product Premier Party. Fill out the form on the right to secure your spot today.  What: Join us for complimentary beer and wine tasting with heavy appetizers and a chance to win an iPad mini. When: Wednesday, February 27 at 6:30pm - 9:00pm Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara Lafayette Room, 2nd Floor [button color="blue" link="http://go.wandisco.com/non ...

This Pre-Strata meetup is sponsored by LexisNexis. This is part of the "Big Data Infra for Enterprises" series of meetups. Big Data Cloud Inc. A not-for-profit Organization for Evangelizing & Training around Big Data. Founded & Operated by Third Eye Consulting Services & Solutions LLC (Click here to buy the annual membership) [button color="blue" link="http://www.meetup.com/BigDataCloud/events/9 ...

This meetup is sponsored by VoltDB. VoltDB’s Dr. Michael Stonebraker of MIT, UC Berkeley, and Ingres and Postgres fame, will be there to present the founding principles of solving modern data-velocity problems: “Data is growing faster than hard drives,” “Move the computation to the data, never move the data to the computation,” “Bet on main memory because there's no other way to go fast,” and “Run transacti ...

As we roll into 2013, a general truth dawns unto us, as we peer into our dashboards with various financial and market graphs and numbers - the truth that the year 2013 would be the year of the “Big Data Analytics”. 2012 will be known as the year of the POCs’ in the Big Data space, where we, consulting companies and product companies as well, worked tirelessly to prove the concepts and validate the promises ...

The Harvard Business Review called it the “sexiest job of the 21st century.” Now, SiSense and Microsoft are bringing all these sexy data scientists together at Big Data Date Night, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The event will include a keynote, lightning presentations from guest speakers, and networking opportunities for attendees. [button color="red" link="http://bigdatadatenight.eventbrite.com/" size= ...

This meetup is sponsored by Zettaset. Security is the greatest challenge for the widespread adoption of Hadoop in enterprises. This meetup will discuss ways and means of how such challenges are being met with various solutions and/or products in the industry today. Industry security experts will showcase their varied experiences. This is first among the “Big Data Infra for Enterprises” series of Big Data Cl ...

Meet-up to help, educate and demystify "Big Data” & “Cloud Computing” technologies to businesses, professionals & individuals. Agenda: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm : Registration & Mixer 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm: Translating great leaps of insight from Big Data into growth and revenue - Jo Prichard, LexisNexis. This presentation will focus on LexisNexis examples of generating insights from big data, and the challenges of tra ...

Third Eye's BigDataCloud offices FREE for BigDataCloud members with Annual membership. (Click here to buy the annual membership) Agenda: Apache Hadoop - Architecture, Ecosystem and Map Reduce - Jump Start Course Click here to register FREE for BigDataCloud members with annual membership 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm : Registration & Mixer 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION What Does Big Data Mean and Who Will Win ...

Meet-up to help, educate and demystify "Big Data” & “Cloud Computing” technologies to businesses, professionals & individuals. Agenda: 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm : Registration & Mixer 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm: Big Data Use Case Demos 3 use case demos showcasing Big Data technologies applied for specific business requirements. Big Data Analytics on Olympics 2012 Twitter Data --- Aparajeeta Das, Third Eye CSS Log Analysis - ...