Andy Ormsby
Web-scale storage at Acunu, a London-based startup. Sailing at the weekend.

Acunu is proud to announce the first Apache Cassandra Europe Conference in London on March 28. This is a packed one-day event with two tracks - 'Case Studies' and 'Cassandra 101 - Beat the learning curve'.

The data opportunity is exploding, and it's happening breathtakingly fast. It's not just analysts and developers who stand to profit-entrepreneurs, marketers, product managers, and forward-looking members of the C-suite are all in hot pursuit of the value data brings to their business. Join us in New York this September for a full week of...

The 3rd edition of the Big Data London meetup!
Come and join us for an evening of Big Data talks and discussions.

The Big Data conference is designed to provide you with a foundation for your future big data strategy. From storage and warehousing to intelligence and discovery, we look at what it takes to successfully plan for and utilize your company’s data.

It’s been said that 90 percent of the data that exists today was created in the last two years....

Chinwag and UK Trade & Investment are hosting a networking event with thebest and brightest from the UK digital media industry along with US investors and international media.

This is a great opportunity to join the top innovative digital entrepreneaurs and compnaies from the UK, including the 37 companies on the UKTI Mission to SXSWi. Come...

With nearly 2 billion people online worldwide and the potential for online startups to become the next big thing overnight, companies must be prepared to handle the massive amounts of traffic they strive to acquire.

However, not everyone with an idea for a potentially successful website is a network engineer. This panel will inform those who run...

Big Data solutions, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Cassandra, are growing up and are in the process of moving out of a grassroots movement to widespread adoption. Unfortunately, the majority of the technical expertise still lies in the hands of the open source project contributors and most solutions are tackled from the bottom up, starting with...

Apache Cassandra solves the Big Data problem by partitioning data, expanding horizontally and delivering replication consistency. This presentation will explain how Cassandra's data model provides novel features like very large, sparse rows to aid high performance through denormalization, and give an example of porting a SQL schema to...

After many years there now appears to be agreement from traditional software vendors to web-based companies that we are now shifting from the desktop to the cloud. Is there truly harmony in the industry or are there still disagreements over how the cloud is delivered and utilized? This panel of cloud pioneers and experts will debate the state of...

When in Texas, do as the Texans do... Join us for Chinwag's Global Grill, an official SXSW party, for all the international folks heading to Austin for South by South West (SXSW). What better way to celebrate than with an opportunity to network with fellow out-of-towners and our American friends with some fine local BBQ and some cold...

Calling all Data Geeks! Does the word data get you excited? Have you already RSVP'd without bothering to read the read of the description? No? Here's some more buzz words for you: Big Data, Data Science, NoSQL, Cassandra, Hadoop, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Predictive Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Large Scale Graph Analysis,...

What is Cassandra? What is NoSQL? Why are sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google and Digg all using these new technologies? And what does that mean to me?

The popularity of the NoSQL movement has exploded in the last year or two, as a number of these non-traditional data storage systems have gone from experimental curiosities to powerful...

Please note that this is an official SxSWi event and requires a badge. :D

If you're a developer who wants to know how big data can make your apps seem smarter and more useful to your audience, and that it might not take as much work as you think,

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if you're a big data engineer interested in nerding out over why Avro is better than...

Five days of presentations, networking events, and more showcasing the best new emerging technology, digital works, video games, and innovative ideas.