OVERVIEW

Abhishek Mehta (Founder, Tresata) interviews Mike Olson ( Cloudera ) and Rod Smith ( IBM ) in front of a live audience, at the 2011 “Strata Conference” held at Santa Clara in this segment. He starts by getting their views on the key drivers to deliver the “Big Data Revolution” to different industries and verticals. He then proceeds to ask their viewpoint on Big Data’s ability to solve previously unsolvable business problems, now. Abhishek then concludes the discussion by asking Mike’s and Rod’s views on whether Hadoop was going to be as big as LINUX.