by Angela Guess
The Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference has several hot topics lined up for this year’s conference which is set for April 3 – April 7 in Chicago: “This year’s extensive program offers 200 hours of in-depth tutorials, hands-on workshops, practical sessions, and insightful keynotes that will lift executives who need to exploit enterprise information for strategic, financial and operational success, to the next level.”
One highly anticipated session is “Data Virtualization for the Cloud, Big Data, and Social Media – Lessons from Navteq.” This presentation led by Senior Project Manager Gordon Redzic “will show how data virtualization has helped Navteq to integrate and enrich massive amounts of location data stored in the cloud with real-time information coming from partners, social media sites, location and content-sensitive commerce.”
Another hot topic will be Pramad Sadalage of Thoughtworks’s presentation on “NoSQL Databases.” According to the release, “This session will take an in depth look into the need for NoSQL solutions, its broad categories, and the products/solutions within those categories. The pros and cons of key-value stores, document stores, graph databases, column databases, and MapReduce queries will all be discussed.”
