Hadoop Summit 2015

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Modernize your Hadoop infrastructure:
An industry panel presentation
Dell | Intel | Cloudera | Syncsort

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Panel Discussion Speakers
Armando Acosta, Dell
Armando Acosta has been involved in the IT
Industry over the last 15 years with experience in
architecting IT solutions and product-
marketing, management, planning, and strategy.
Armando’s latest role has been focused on Big
Data/Hadoop solutions, addressing solutions
that evolve new capabilities for emerging
customer needs, and assist with the roadmap
for new products and features.
Vin Sharma, Intel
Brandon Draeger, Intel
Brandon is a Director of Marketing and Business
Development for Big Data Solutions at Intel and
manages the GTM relationship for Intel and
Cloudera and their shared partner ecosystem.
Brandon has over 15 years of experience in a
variety of enterprise technology disciplines and
has held roles in engineering, product
management, and strategy at Dell, Symantec,
and Dorado Software..

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Panel Discussion Speakers
TJ Laher, Cloudera
TJ Laher works on the product marketing team
at Cloudera where he helps organizations
across industries implement Hadoop in order to
become data driven. Before Cloudera, TJ
worked with an early stage advanced analytics
startup called Ayasdi. While at Ayasdi he helped
Fortune 500 companies mine high dimensional
data to deploy novel big data applications.
Vin Sharma, Intel
Mark Muncy, Syncsort
Mark Muncy leads Technical Product Marketing
for Syncsort’s Big Data portfolio, working with
technical and client-facing teams to deliver
high-value solutions to the most data intensive
companies in the world. Mark brings to his
current role over a decade of hands-on
experience in data architecture and ETL
development in the gaming, data services, &
financial services industries.

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