Government agencies are being tremendously impacted by the challenges of managing and utilizing Big Data. Legions of IT pros are trying to make legacy technology go against its nature. Money is spent, deadlines are missed, pressure is mounting, and your department heads and other constituents don’t quite get it. So how do you really get started? Agenda 8:00am Registration, Breakfast & Networking 8:50am Welcome & Introductions 9:0...

Achieving Real Success with Hadoop Although Hadoop shows great promise for managing Big Data, many organizations are still struggling to decide which parts of the Hadoop ecosystem to adopt in order to obtain/elicit the greatest value. A key concern is how to avoid performance and data security issues so that your agency/organization isn’t spending valuable time and resources on what ultimately turns out to be little more than a developme...

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You are invited to join SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing in a half-day Executive Town Hall event to get beyond the buzz words and understand what organizations really need to be successful with "Big Data". SGI, along with industry thought leaders from Intel and MarkLogic, and end users such as NOAA and eBay will share insights around the following key questions facing us all on Big Data: What is "Big Data" - really - and what doe...