This document is a presentation on big data and Hadoop. It introduces big data, how it is growing exponentially, and the challenges of storing and analyzing unstructured data. It discusses how Sears moved to Hadoop to gain insights from all of its customer data. The presentation explains why Hadoop is in high demand, as it allows distributed processing of large datasets across commodity hardware. It provides an overview of the Hadoop ecosystem including HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, HBase and more. Finally, it discusses job opportunities and salaries in big data which are high and growing significantly.