Hadoop for the RDBMS Expert

• Struggling to learn Hadoop?
• Is you company considering a Hadoop deployment and you want to get up to speed quickly?
• Just want to update your IT skills?

If you answered YES to any of these then this session is for you.

Hadoop is the hot new skill in the data space and it’s easy to understand the basics and apply what you already know about SQL Server to get up to speed quickly. We’ll cover the latest trends in Big Data and the newest technologies in the Hadoop stack. We’ll show you some great use cases for Hadoop, how to spin up a test cluster in a few mins for free, and how to integrate SQL Server quickly. We’ll also cover cases when Hadoop is NOT the right solution for a given problem.

Bring your questions!

Dave is a Data Solutions Architect for Microsoft. 
He works with enterprise customers integrating structured and unstructured data, enterprise, and big data, 
whether on-premises or in the Cloud. Dave understands how traditional data and big data fit together 
to create modern data ecosystems.

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