It was amazing, and tremendously exciting, to see 1600 people register and attend the 4th Hadoop Summit. Eric14's new company, Horton Works, was clearly the pre-conference buzz, and made my job of following up that much more difficult :) I made three points:
1. "Entertainment": Watson, how it works, and role of Big Data -- essentially, the points I have made in this post.
2. "Education: What enterprise use cases we are seeing -- I have talked about it in the past, and will do more in a later post.
3. "Philosophy": Building upon my earlier post.
So let me elaborate on the Philosophy. My essential points are that the "birthers" (where hadoop has been born) and "adopters" (where hadoop will be used in enterprises) have a strong intersection today, modulo some extras on both sides...
However, at t = 3 years from now, we can either go separate ways because of different demands...
or come together:
The choice is ours, as a community, we need to decide which way we want to go. IBM and I are strong advocates of the following view:
I will follow up on some other points I made, especially in the education part, but the feedback I have received at the conference is very positive with the message I have been trying to convey.
Great community, let's keep it together!
Anant Jhingran's #Hadoop summit ... interesting philosophy, What are birthers and Adopters?
Posted by: Racoss | June 30, 2011 at 07:33 AM
Birthers: The companies that gave birth to the technology -- the facebooks, yahoos, linkedins, googles of the worlds. Adopters, which will use the technology for purposes perhaps different than the needs of the birthers.
Posted by: Anant Jhingran | June 30, 2011 at 08:19 AM
Does anyone know how many 10,000 + node companies exist? With each node having 16 cores- this seems like a lot of computing power.
Amazing.
Posted by: Kevin Apte | July 02, 2011 at 07:34 PM
Yahoo, for example, at 42,000 nodes. Not sure of the size of each node.
Posted by: Anant Jhingran | July 05, 2011 at 03:19 PM
Hi Anant - Enjoyed the presentation greatly... thanks for taking the time to share so much insight. I believe you presented a slide that had a list of industries and which core Hadoop value propositions they most sought. I attempted to take a photo but wasn't quick enough. Have you shared that matrix online anywhere? Or are you willing to share it? Thanks!
Posted by: Account Deleted | July 11, 2011 at 04:19 AM
Joe definitely, why don't I post it for everyone, let me do it now...
thanks for the kind words.
Posted by: Anant Jhingran | July 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM
Hi Anant,
I was at the Hadoop summit and really loved your presentation. I went to view it again on youtube but found that the embedded slides were often not showing when they should or where very blurry. Are the slides available anywhere?
I'm particularly interested in the slides that showed Watson's "thought process" in answering the Istanbul question
Thanks!
Posted by: Guyharrison | September 17, 2011 at 08:48 PM
Guy, I do not have slides shared (no reason, just have not gotten around to it). Send me a linkedin or facebook personal email and I will send them to you...
Posted by: Anant Jhingran | September 19, 2011 at 07:28 AM