Thursday evening Oct 22 the first (and hopefully not the only) gathering of the Boston Big Data summit at the Foley Hoag LLP Emerging Enterprise Center was a great gathering of people involved in all aspects of data management. Infobright, CTO, Bob Zurek and Amrith Kumar of Datupia realized there was a need to gather all the area “big” data management professionals in one place for a combination socializing and panel discussion on how cloud computing and big data are overlapping in many areas.
Kurt Monash delivered an interesting and entertaining keynote speech touching on a wide range of subjects around databases, storage, and his thoughts on how the cloud is changing the way organizations of all sizes need to think about their data management issues.
Fascinating “big data” factoids:
- Yahoo! manages 10 petabytes
- Ebay manages 6 petabytes on 96 Greenplumb nodes
- Facebook manages 2.5 petabytes on a distributed file system
- Sonian manages 100′s of millions of objects in a cloud-powered full-text enabled archive repository
Tags: Boston, Cloud Computing, Data Management