Presentation from Justin Sheehy, Basho Technologies #dataconf More at http://event.gigaom.com/structuredata/

1. WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER ASK, “HOW IS THIS BETTER THAN HADOOP?”
SPEAKER: Justin Sheehy
CTO
Basho Technologies
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2. How is this better than Hadoop?
Justin Sheehy
justin@basho.com
@justinsheehy
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3. How is this
Riak
better than Hadoop?
Justin Sheehy
justin@basho.com
@justinsheehy
Thursday, March 28, 13

4. How is this
MongoDB
better than Hadoop?
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5. How is this
Zookeeper
better than Hadoop?
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6. How is this
Node.js
better than Hadoop?
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7. How is this
better than Hadoop?
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8. a shibboleth
How is this
better than Hadoop?
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9. How is this Frum
John
better than Hadoop?
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10. The cargo cult of
John Frum
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11. The cargo cult of
Hadoop
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13. The cargo cult of
Hadoop
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14. The cargo cult of
Big Data
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15. The cargo cult of
Big Data
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16. The cargo cult of
Big Data
Do you have a big data problem?
If not, it's time to ask yourself why not?
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17. The cargo cult of
Big Data
Do you have a big data problem?
If not, it's time to ask yourself why not?
start paying us.
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18. You don't need a
Big Data Strategy!
"I don't want to hear about Big Data.
I want to hear about Big Answers."
- Harper Reed, CTO Obama For America
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19. You can't have a
Big Data Strategy!
All of the Big Questions
are about your business.
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20. There is no such thing as a
Big Data Strategy!
"Big data is data that exceeds the processing
capacity of conventional database systems."
- Edd Dumbill, O'Reilly analyst and conference program chair (Jan 2012)
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21. There is no such thing as a
Big Data Strategy!
"...big data isn’t really about large volumes of
data, it’s about smart use of data."
- Edd Dumbill, O'Reilly analyst and conference program chair (Feb 2013)
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22. There is no such thing as a
Cloud Strategy!
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23. There is no such thing as a
NoSQL Strategy!
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24. There is no such thing as a
Big Data Strategy!
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25. There is no such thing as a
Big Data Strategy!
We define Big Data as...
1.Technology
2.Analysis
3.Mythology
- danah boyd, Microsoft Research
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26. Please don't drink the Kool-Aid.
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27. Please don't drink the Kool-Aid.
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28. Strategy is not your buzzwords.
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29. Strategy is not your tools.
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30. Strategy is about why
you make your choices.
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