Cloudera Announces HBaseCon 2016 Speaker Lineup

MEDIA ALERT: PALO ALTO, Calif., April 06, 2016 --

What: Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies, announced today the speaker lineup for HBaseCon 2016, the fifth annual conference and the world’s biggest gathering of Apache HBase committers/contributors, administrators, and developers.

Who: HBaseCon’s goal is to continually inform the user community about best practices for running web-scale, HBase-based systems in production. Keynotes will include:

• "State of Apache HBase” - Apache HBase PMC
• "Facebook's Return to (Real) Open Source” - Facebook
• "Apache HBase at Yahoo! Scale" - Yahoo!

There will also be a "Future of Apache HBase" panel as well as speakers representing the largest/most impressive production HBase deployments in the world, including Airbnb, Alibaba, Cerner, Facebook, Google, Salesforce, Visa, Xiaomi, and Yahoo!

Sponsors include Bloomberg, Cask, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, Pepperdata, and Salesforce. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a Community Partner, and O'Reilly Media is a Media Partner. Cloudera is the host and organizer of HBaseCon, in coordination with the Apache HBase PMC.

When and Where: HBaseCon will be held in San Francisco on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at The Village, Market Street.

More details:

• Registration and Sponsor Information: Registration for the event is now open at a cost of $475 (with group discounts available). Sponsorships are available at Gold and Silver levels, with several add-on options. To register or for more information about becoming a sponsor, visit: http://hbasecon.com.
• Book Signing: The authors of the new O’Reilly Media book, Architecting HBase Applications will be on hand to sign free copies.
• Training Discount: HBaseCon attendees will have exclusive access to a 15% discount on Apache HBase training from Cloudera University on May 25-27 in San Francisco immediately following the event (discount for this course and these dates only). For more information about HBase training from Cloudera University, visit http://cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/training/courses/hbase-training.html.

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