Breaking Analysis: Big Data Week in Review - Real-Time Analytics Emerges As New Theme
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 2012-10-29

Last week was SiliconANGLE's Big Data week, with intense coverage coming out of IBM's Information on Demand conference as well as O'Reilly and Cloudera's Strata conference out of New York City.  Joining us now with his breaking analysis on these stories is SiliconANGLE Founding Editor Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins.
*# Big Data Week is over, and SiliconANGLE was all over the map... what were the highlights of the week?
Quest for real time, maturation, evangelization, recognition.
 *# SiliconANGLE is always on the lookout for what you call "tech athletes." Who were the returning stars this year, and who were the stars to look out for?
Returning: Abhi Mehta from Tresata, Pauline Nist from Intel, Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera, Doug Cutting from Cloudera, Alistair Croll and Edd Dumbill from Strata, Amr awadallah from Cloudera
New: Oren Falkowitz, CEO and Cofounder from Sqrrl, Camille Fournier from Rent the Runway, Jason Silva (a Venezuelan-American television personality), Mark Kettering from Brightlight Consulting
 *# What are some of the more interesting companies you've seen?
Rent the Runway and Sqrrl (rt db) were interesting outliers. Stars were Hadapt, Cloudera, 
 *# What were the major themes of Strata / Hadoop World in NYC?
Real time, conflation of analytics with big data, widening of the tent in general, start of real commercialization
*# Big Data has been incredibly hyped, not just this year, but over the last several years - how real is it, though?
IBM themes. Level of venture capital interest doesn't preclude hype cycle, but can be a datapoint supporting "realness." Data Week the new SxSW.