Where business is going—and how to get there first
Strata is a unique opportunity to tap into the leading minds in technology and network with thousands of data scientists, engineers, analysts, and business managers.
Conference topics include:
AI, Big data & the Cloud, Data engineering, Data-driven business, Data science, Enterprise adoption, Hadoop, Machine Learning, Real-time apps, Security, Sensors & IoT, Spark & beyond, Stream processing, Visualization & UX
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Strata Business Summit covers business strategy, case studies, and executive briefings on key topics such as: AI, predictive analytics, security, and cloud strategy. For finance executives, Findata Day is a deep dive into the disruption in finance—and how to turn algorithms into advantage.
Session Title: Big Data Anti-Patterns
Date / Time : Tuesday, September 26th – 5:45pm – 5:55pm – Solutions Showcase Theater
Presenter: Matt Maccaux, Global Big Data Practice Lead, Dell EMC
Session Abstract: In this presentation, we’ll talk about the top 5 mistakes that organizations make when deploying Big Data. These mistakes, or anti-patterns, will prevent the successful adoption of Big Data within the enterprise resulting in frustration from the business and added cost/complexity to the IT team.
Session Title : Barclays & Dell EMC: Enabling Data Science Self-Service through an Elastic Data Platform
Date/ Time : Wednesday, September 27th – 1:15pm Room 1A 03
Speaker: Ankit Tharwani, Barclays
Description: Barclays and Dell EMC have partnered on the deployment of a solution called the Elastic Data Platform that gives Data Scientists the ability to self serve sandbox environments, cutting down the time to provision environments from months to hours.
Session Abstract: Barclays had successfully deployed a data lake to transition away from an enterprise data warehouse. The challenge they faced with enterprise adoption was to get the data in the hands of the users as quickly as possible, while preventing data sprawl and maintaining the integrity and consistency of the system. Partnering with Dell EMC, a solution was developed called the Elastic Data Platform that was based on 5 key principles: Ease of Data Provisioning Tailored and Isolated Work Environments Scalability and Elasticity of the Platform Data Security Hybrid-cloud deployment model Using technologies provided by Dell EMC, Barclays has deployed this Elastic Data Platform to allow Data Scientists to provision their own environments and scale them up or down (adding/removing compute nodes) using BlueData EPIC to deploy Cloudera and Spark Docker containers. Additionally, the compute layer of the environment was decoupled from the storage layer and deployed in a tiered architecture using Dell EMC Isilon. This presentation will discuss the Barclays journey for adoption, the architecture for the solution, and describe the underlying technologies that enable it.