BBBT - Cloudera - 2014

Cloudera http://www.cloudera.com/

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Topic:

Hadoop, ‘Data Hubs’ and the Journey to Data Center Transformation

Summary:

Hadoop has rapidly emerged as a necessary complement to existing data warehouses, unlocking business insights from more data and more kinds of data than ever before possible. At the same time, Hadoop enables leading organizations to rationalize the cost of data while improving performance, reducing risk, and meeting compliance regulations. Join us to learn how Cloudera is helping customers successfully take advantage of this undeniable innovation.

Presenter(s):

Charles Zedlewski – Vice President, Products

Charles (@zedlewski) joined Cloudera from SAP where he held various management roles in product strategy, management and operations. During his time at SAP Charles led the development of a half a dozen new and follow-on releases for products that supported some of SAP’s major growth initiatives in GRC, Sustainability, and EPM. Many of these products received substantial critical acclaim and collectively generated more than a hundred million dollars in new product revenues. Prior to SAP Charles held product roles at BEA Systems and venture backed software startups. Charles holds a bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and an MBA from MIT.

Alan Saldich – Vice President, Marketing

Alan (@alsaldich) is responsible for developing and executing Cloudera’s marketing and communications strategy to support continued business growth and brand awareness. Alan joins Cloudera from Riverbed Technology, a 1,400-employee public company that develops high performance IT infrastructure solutions, where he served as Vice President of Product Marketing. With over 22 years of experience, he has held a variety of leadership roles in marketing, finance and operations at eight companies. Alan holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Matt Brandwein – Director, Product Marketing

Prior to Cloudera, he delivered enterprise search, business intelligence, and data discovery products at Endeca and Oracle. Matt holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Company Profile:

All modern enterprises strive to be information-driven, to make decisions based on data, not hunches, but getting there isn’t easy. No vendor is better equipped than Cloudera to help you deploy an enterprise data hub powered by Apache Hadoop.

Case Studies:

Merkle

Western Union

Opower

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