Cloud Hadoop & Big Data Services 101

Hadoop is cool, but it's a set of components that requires expertise to assemble and configure. "Do it yourself" Hadoop is challenging, especially in the cloud, where things get expensive quickly. That’s why there are more and more big data services in the cloud, prebuilt "as a service" solutions that help companies jumpstart data science, analytics and customer insight projects. But the category is young, labels are fuzzy and it’s confusing to navigate the market from Hadoop as a Service to Big Data as a Service or Database Platform as a Service. In this session, get a business-level introduction to the various categories emerging for big data in the cloud. Hear real stories of how companies are finding success and take away key considerations for evaluations.