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Microsoft on Big Data at Strata Santa Clara 2013 

We’re wrapping up last week’s Strata Santa Clara 2013 Conference after a flurry of activity! The week started off with Hortonworks announcing the release of the beta of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, the industry’s first 100% Open Source Apache Hadoop-based distribution for Windows.
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O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths with Halo 4–Part 3 

Structured or unstructured – what to store? How about all of it? I spoke at the O’Reilly Strata Conference last year and am back again this year to share thoughts about big data. It’s been a remarkable year for Microsoft’s data platform team. While we’ve had a long history in the data space, last year was noteworthy for several reasons.
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O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths–Part 2 

If concerns about having the right skillsets on staff are stopping you from trying big data, Microsoft’s BI tools may hold the key to busting down those barriers. It’s the second day of the O’Reilly Strata Conference and one common theme I expect to hear about is staffing and skillsets related to big data.
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O’Reilly Strata: Busting Big Data Adoption Myths–Part 1 

Think infrastructure and scalability will impede your path to big data analytics? Windows Azure HDInsight is your big data solution. It’s the first day of the O’Reilly Strata conference in Santa Clara, CA and I’m looking forward to learning more about big data and talking to all of the customers, partners and industry influencers at the conference. Nowadays big data = big buzz.
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Microsoft Talks Big Data at O’Reilly® Strata 

For those of you into big data, O’Reilly’s® Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA is the place to be. If you are there, visit the Microsoft booth to meet with Microsoft’s big brains for big data – and while you’re there, enter to win an Xbox 360 with Kinect.
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PASS BAC Preview Series: Self-Service BI from Excel 2013 

In today’s world of information, the way we experience data can have enormous impact on the meaning of data. The first step in analyzing and exploring data is to decide how to explore it, shape it, format it, and create the visualizations that will give deeper insight into your business.
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PASS BAC Preview Series: The Evolving World of Data 

In this next post in our PASS Business Analytics Conference preview series, PASS Board Member Thomas LaRock shares his insights on the rapidly changing world of data and his recommendation on how you can keep up with the fast pace of growing technologies in this business area.
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PASS BAC PREVIEW SERIES: SQL Professionals and the World of Self-service BI and Big Data 

As the PASS Business Analytics Conference approaches, we are excited to host this new blog series featuring content from some of the amazing speakers that you will experience at PASS BAC, April 10-12 in Chicago. This new conference is the place where Business Analytics professionals will gather to connect, share and learn in world class sessions covering a wide range of important topics.
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What Does Big Data Mean to You? 

As a company that for many years has been committed to delivering end-to-end data platform technologies to our customers, we’re excited about all the attention big data is receiving from press, analysts and the industry. While all the pundits are in general agreement that big data is the next greatest IT trend, the definition of big data varies depending on the source.