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Sparking a Revolution at Big Data London

Actian Corporation

November 15, 2017

The essential guide to Actian Hybrid Data Conference 2017 in London, UK

If you’re visiting what’s billed as the United Kingdom’s largest data and analytics events, you know that Big Data London at the Olympia promises to be a massive gathering of experts and analysts across the fields of Big Data, machine learning, AI, cloud technologies, and more. You’ll be able to learn from numerous pioneers and visionaries of the data community as well as get a unique look at the current state of the local data economy.

Over five thousand attendees are expected to visit this unique two-day event, which is open to everyone, starting on November 15. Big Data London will feature 80 exhibitors, over 100 speakers and use cases, and five theaters with live demos. A keynote presentation will mark the start of each day of the conference, with Neha Narkhede, co-founder and CTO of Confluent, speaking on the rise of the streaming platform and building large-scale operable data systems on November 15, and Amr Awadallah, CTO of Cloudera, discussing machine learning, AI and data analytics on November 16.

Be sure to visit Actian at booth #426 (located near the center of West Hall Level 1 next to the AI Lab Feature) and meet members of our technical and sales team members who can answer all of the questions you may have. In addition, Actian technologists will be giving two presentations during the conference:

  • November 15 at 11:10 AM – 11:40 AM in the Fast Data Theater – Mary Schulte, Senior Systems Engineer, will discuss scale-up and scale-out Big Data deployment options for common Enterprise use cases, with simple tried-and-true solutions.
  • November 16 at 3:10 PM – 3:40 PM in the Fast Data Theater – Keith Bolam, Engineering Solutions Manager, demonstrates how to quickly analyze a Billion rows, and covers the 5W’s and H of Interpreting Fast and Fresh Data.

Note that while attendance is free, you’ll still need to register online to get in.

If you’re new to Actian products, here are some of the products in our portfolio we’ll be featuring at Big Data London:

  • Actian X provides a single data management platform for OLTP and analytics.
  • Actian NoSQL accelerates agile development for complex object models at enterprise scale.
  • Actian Zen Embedded Database enables zero-admin, nano-footprint, hybrid NoSQL & SQL data management.
  • Actian Vector in-memory analytics database is a consistent performance leader on the TPC-H Decision Support Benchmark over the last 5 years.
  • Actian DataConnect provides lightweight, enterprise-class hybrid data integration.

We hope you have a fantastic time at the conference and we look forward to meeting all of you in person to learn more about Actian’s products, community and customers.

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About Actian Corporation

Actian is helping businesses build a bridge to a data-defined future. We’re doing this by delivering scalable cloud technologies while protecting customers’ investments in existing platforms. Our patented technology has enabled us to maintain a 10-20X performance edge against competitors large and small in the mission-critical data management market. The most data-intensive enterprises in financial services, retail, telecommunications, media, healthcare and manufacturing trust Actian to solve their toughest data challenges.