The Scoop on Hadoop: A Quick Look at the 2013 Hadoop Summit

July 25, 2013 Jason Levitt Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Both the “briefcases” and the “backpacks” were out in force at the Hadoop Summit at the San Jose Convention Center June 26–27. Marketing types (the “briefcases”) and data scientists and hackers (the “backpacks”) showed up to discuss and show off all things Hadoop. The exhibition hall was a mix of established veterans, such as Salesforce, Yahoo, and Dell, as well as startups of varying degrees of maturity. Like many conferences focused on technology—and especially with enterprise-class server technology like Hadoop—nearly everyone was showcasing ways to make things easier to use and more accessible.