Archive for the tag 'Big Data'

May 21, 2013

Michael Chui is a Principal of the McKinsey Global Institute.  He is based in San Francisco, CA, where he directs research on the impact of information technologies, such as Big Data, social media, and the Internet of Things, on business and the economy.  He has served clients in the High Tech, Media and Telecom industries on strategy, innovation and product development, IT, sales & marketing, M&A and organization.  Michael is a frequent speaker at major global conferences and his research has been cited in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Fast Company, Forbes, The Economist, The Times of London, WIRED, and Les Échos.

Michael holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science, and a M.S. in Computer Science, from Indiana University.  His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For: Web Searching as Query Refinement,” examined Web user search behaviors and the usability of Web search engines.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Michael served as the first Chief Information Officer of the City of Bloomington, Indiana, where he re-architected the enterprise architecture using Open Source technologies and led a project that resulted in Bloomington becoming the first community in the world to offer both live and archived video streaming of public meetings on the Web. Before that, Michael was founder and executive director of HoosierNet, Inc, a nonprofit cooperative Internet service provider that provided dial-up and broadband access to the Internet to consumers, nonprofits, governments and businesses.

Michael Chui’s session at the E2 Conference is called Patterned Response: Case Studies in Successful Big Data Deployments. This session will look at some common big data patterns: classes of problems and the solutions that work for them.

Attendees will learn:

  • Common problem/response patterns for big data
  • Approaches to tailoring customized approaches to typical Big Data challenges
  • Best practices for tools, technologies and operations in Big Data initiatives

Register for the E2 Conference with priority code SMBLOG13 and save up to $400* on your E2 Conference Full Event Pass.

 

*Discount calculated based on the on-site price and not combinable with other offers. Offer good on new registrations only. Prices after discount applied: Full Event: $1,699.00 Conference: $1,299.00, Workshop: 699.00, Keynote & Expo: $50.00

April 22, 2013

Robert Ross is responsible for architecture and research at TransLattice. Previously, Mr. Ross was a research scientist at McAfee developing content for the HIPS system, as a member of the AVERT Labs team. Prior to this, Mr. Ross was a senior developer at Global Care Quest where he implemented complex SQL functionality and assisted with performance measurement design. As a software engineer at eEye Digital Security he developed HIPS protocol analyzers, worked on Win32 services and kernel. Mr. Ross was a senior software engineer at Symantec, contributing to the first multi-gigabit protocol analyzer as an extension of his work at Recourse Technologies. Recourse’s groundbreaking technology included a distributed security threat management system and advanced, high data-rate network intrusion detection solution. As a senior software engineer at Recourse he implemented significant system components and has secured multiple patents (including numbers 6,981,155 and 6,907,533).

Robert Ross’ session at the E2 Conference is called Big Data: Architecting Systems at Speed. Most people think the fundamental problem presented by Big Data is one of volume. It’s not. It’s speed: How to process realtime streams of information rapidly enough to make meaningful decisions quickly. Creating systems that do this requires fundamentally rethinking how data processing is architected. Designers need to know things like:

  • What are the tradeoffs and benefits of distributed systems like Hadoop and Cassandra?
  • When can fundamental principles of transactional systems like ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) be sacrificed (and when can they not?)
  • What are the benefits of NoSQL?
  • What are the challenges and best practices involved in delivering Big Data analysis at speed?

Attendees will learn:

  • Key characteristics of technologies used in realtime Big Data processing
  • Best practices for designing and architecting realtime Big Data solutions
  • How to navigate the consistency tradeoff: When (and why) to sacrifice ACID for the greater good

Register with priority code SMBLOG13 and save up to $600* on your E2 Conference Full Event Pass.

 

*Discount calculated based on the on-site price and not combinable with other offers. Offer good on new registrations only. Prices after discount applied: Full Event: $1,499.00 Conference: $1,099.00, Workshop: 599.00, Keynote & Expo: $50.00

October 22, 2012

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September 25, 2012

The consumerization of IT is not a passing trend – it represents the way future business will be conducted.And while the devices, services and tools available to today’s workforce can have a significant impact on innovation and business productivity, with this agility comes new security risks and compliance issues. In the Consumerization of IT track at E2 Innovate, attendees will learn how to formulate successful long term strategy that ensures the security of data and applications while providing the workforce with guidelines and policy as they chose how to work. Sessions in this track include:

The Future of Mobility: Moving Beyond Devices and BYOD to a New Computing Era

The Consumerization of IT, BYOD, and the Rise of the Enterprise App Store

The Corporate Genome Experiment: Decoding the Path to Insightment

The Evolution of Social Network Sites: Mobile, Federated, and Contextual

The Build vs. Buy Dilemma – Choosing the Right Mobile Development Approach

Driving the Customer Experience with Next-Generation Mobile Apps

Join us at E2 Innovate this Nov 12 – 15 in the Silicon Valley, and use priority code SMBLOG12 at registration for $200 off a conference pass, or a free expo pass.

September 18, 2012

Back in April, the Harvard Business Review ran an article that made the argument that “Good Data Won’t Guarantee Good Decisions.” The good data that the article talked about was Big Data.  And what I’d add is that it certainly won’t guarantee good security and compliance either. Continue Reading »