Cloud Computing For Everyone

Session Date and Time: Day 3, March 25, 13:15am EST (10:15am PST) (45min)
Keywords: Cloud Analytics, Big Data, Parallel Processing, Realtime Web Mining, Cloud Platform
Authors: Bill McColl, Cloudscale Inc.
Abstract: Experienced programmers are already exploiting tools such as MapReduce/Hadoop for processing large repositories of stored, historical data. The next major post-SQL revolution will be in bringing the full power of advanced data mining and analytics, realtime stream processing, and massively parallel computing to everyone, not just to experienced programmers.

The cloud is central to bringing about this radical change. Hundreds of millions of "non-programmers" routinely use technologies such as Excel spreadsheets to handle their data challenges. In this talk we will show that any one of these non-programmers can now, for the first time, simply and seamlessly exploit the full power of realtime, highly parallel cloud computing. Those already using SQL or MapReduce/Hadoop, also now have an easy-to-use massively parallel cloud technology that can handle realtime as well as stored, historical data.

Bill McColl Founder and CEO, Cloudscale Inc.

Bill left Oxford University to found Cloudscale. At Oxford for over twenty years, he was Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Parallel Computing Research Center, and Chairman of the CS Faculty. Cloudscale is his second Silicon Valley software company. He was also founder and CEO of Sychron Inc., a Silicon Valley VC-backed software company developing scalable software systems for datacenter and desktop virtualization. Bill lives in Palo Alto, CA.

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