BBBT - Hortonworks - 2015
Event Details
Hortonworks http://hortonworks.com/
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Topic:
Hortonworks, Open Enterprise Hadoop
Summary:
Open Enterprise Hadoop is an emerging category of solutions that help businesses translate information into competitive advantage. Across industries, you can find companies using Open Enterprise Hadoop in large-scale projects to enable deep data discovery, to capture a single view of customers across multiple data sets, and to help data scientists perform predictive analytics. In these ways, companies meet current customer needs, anticipate shifting market dynamics and consumer behaviors, and test business hypotheses—all crucial capabilities to help them outmaneuver and outperform their competitors.
Hortonworks is pioneering the Open Enterprise Hadoop category, and it is gaining market momentum. Join Hortonworks’ BBBT Ranked Event on August 28 to learn more about drivers and benefits of Open Enterprise Hadoop.
Presenter(s):
Shaun Connolly – Vice President of Corporate Strategy
As VP of Corporate Strategy, Shaun is focused on enabling Apache Hadoop to power the enterprise’s next-generation data architecture. Shaun has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry with experience that spans big data, cloud computing, application middleware, and enterprise open source software platforms. Shaun has a track record of building early stage and midsize software companies into successful market leaders and has held VP and Director level positions at VMware, SpringSource, Red Hat, JBoss, Princeton Softech, HP, Bluestone Software, and Primavera Systems. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University. Follow Shaun on Twitter: @shaunconnolly.
Matt Morgan – Vice President of Product and Alliance Marketing
As VP product and alliance marketing, Matt leads Hortonworks product marketing, alliance marketing, vertical solutions marketing, and worldwide sales enablement. Matt has a 20 year history as a successful silicon-valley marketing and product executive, leading marketing strategy and execution for many of the valley’s largest, most complicated cloud, SaaS, and big data businesses. Matt previously served at Citrix as vice president of corporate product marketing, where he oversaw corporate product marketing for all lines of business. Before Citrix, Morgan served for over three years as vice president of product marketing and strategy for HP Software’s $2.9B IT Management and Cloud business. He also held leadership roles at Blueprint and Mercury Interactive. Matt holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of South Alabama. Follow Matt on Twitter: @forwardtension.
Company Profile:
Hortonworks is the leader in Open Enterprise Hadoop and develops, distributes and supports the only 100% open source Apache Hadoop data platform. Our team comprises the largest contingent of builders and architects within the Hadoop ecosystem who represent and lead the broader enterprise requirements within these communities.
The Hortonworks Data Platform provides an open platform that deeply integrates with existing IT investments and upon which enterprises can build and deploy Hadoop-based applications.
Hortonworks has deep relationships with the key strategic data center partners that enable our customers to unlock the broadest opportunities from Hadoop.
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