Big Data Analytics : What’s Next?

While a majority of Fortune 1000 companies are en-route to understanding Hadoop and adopting it in their technology stack, startups in the bay area and elsewhere have started asking the important and inevitable question: “What’s Next?”. Hadoop for the first time has allowed us to analyze massive amounts of data without necessarily indulging in expensive proprietary hardware or software. However, adoption of Hadoop alone isn’t necessarily helping businesses make smarter decisions or unearth completely new facts that could lead to immense growth of top line. The power of scalable infrastructure needs to be supplemented with nifty data mining and machine learning tools, better visualization of results, and easier ways to track and analyze the findings over a period of time. Besides, there is the entire realm of real-time analytics, which is beyond the batch oriented nature of Hadoop.

The “Global Big Data Conference“, scheduled to take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center on January 28, 2013 answers some of these very important questions around what’s happening in the field of “big data” and what’s to come next. Its a great 1 day conference that has a lot of interesting topics, covered by an awesome line-up of great speakers. In order to take advantage of some favorable pricing please register by tomorrow (January 22, 2013) and save a whole $100, as compared to the onsite price. In addition, as a reader of my blog, don’t forget to take advantage of the additional 20% discount, which you can avail by using the code: “SHAS“. See you all there!