This document summarizes a presentation on accelerating big data, Hadoop and Memcached using high-performance networks. It provides an overview of the architectures of Memcached, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and HBase. It discusses the challenges in designing communication and I/O libraries for enterprise systems and how protocols like Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) can help overcome these challenges. It presents case studies on redesigning Memcached to use verbs interfaces and achieves significant latency improvements over 1GbE and 10GbE networks for both small and large messages.