Big Data is a new frontier in IT where data sets are becoming so enormous that they are almost impossible to manage using traditional database management tools. Data types and content are getting more complicated, volume is going up and serious, valuable problems are there to be solved.

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In 2011, the business analytics market extended its post-2009 recovery with another stellar performance by growing worldwide revenues 14.1% year over year,” said IDC’s Dan Vesset. “International Data Corporation forecasts, in fact, that it will continue to grow at a 9.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2016 to reach $50.7 billion.

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Moderator:Jim Flyzik -Flyzik Group

Panelists:

• Zach Goldstein – DCIO, NOAA
• Adrian Gardner – CIO, NASA Goddard
• Dr. Robert Norris – Chief Architect, NGA
• Alan Hansen – Director-Intelligence Systems & Processing Division, US Army RDECOM
• Cameron Chehreh – Chief Enterprise Engineer, Intelligence Solutions Division, General Dynamics IT
• John Haddad – Director of Enterprise Data Integration, Informatica Corporation
• Gary Newgaard – Area Director, EMC Isilon

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Cray is best known for building supercomputers that can run massive scientific and engineering simulations, and from that work we have developed unique technologies and amassed significant experience working with some of the largest data-intensive environments in the world,” said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray. “This makes our entry into the Big Data market a natural evolution. I am extremely excited to have a proven executive like Arvind helping us bring our leading supercomputing technology to enterprise customers that are trying to gain insight and harness value from the explosion of data happening in their businesses today.”

According to the company YarcData will broadly expand the scope of what Cray’s Knowledge Management practice.

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• Explicit data (i.e. information that goes into profiles, status updates, etc.)
• Implicit data (what’s derived from the explicit data)
• Data “exhaust,” or analytic data that enables users to build applications to change how people “navigate the world”

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