December 14, 2019

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Business insights driven by speed

Business insights driven by speed

The need to quickly acquire, process, prepare, store, and analyze data has never been greater. The need for performance crosses the big data ecosystem toofrom the edge to the server to the analytics software, speed matters. Raghunath Nambiar shares a few use cases that have had significant organizational impact where performance was key.
Talk Title Business insights driven by speed
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Conference Strata + Hadoop World
Conf Tag Make Data Work
Location New York, New York
Date September 27-29, 2016
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The need to quickly acquire, process, prepare, store, and analyze data has never been greater. The need for performance crosses the big data ecosystem too—from the edge to the server to the analytics software, speed matters. Raghunath Nambiar shares a few use cases that have had significant organizational impact where performance was key. This keynote is sponsored by Cisco.

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