February Newsletter: Building a Data Strategy

February 2015     Building a Data Strategy   Every organization wants to use data to make smart, timely decisions, but where does one start? In this edition of the newsletter, we hear from industry thought leaders and champions of successful data driven organizations about their experiences.     The recently announced Chief Data Scientist to the White House, DJ Patil, and renown Data Scientist and Founder of Fast Forward Labs, Hilary Mason co–authored "Data Driven: Creating a Data Culture" to help organizations tackle exactly this issue. In a recent webinar, Cloudera’s Director of Data Science, Josh Wills was fortunate enough to sit-down with these thought leaders to discuss building a data strategy. President Obama's introduction Watch on-demand interview     Security and Compliance in the Era of Big Data   February 25, 2015 @ 1:10PM EST Join us for a live streaming panel of experts from leading organizations discussing how they are enabling compliant and trusted operational security for their enterprise data sources. Panel members: Kaiser Permanente, MasterCard, Department of State, and Deloitte Consulting LLP Register now     Stay up-to-date with the latest Cloudera resources     Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics   Cloudera has been included as a Challenger in Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics, following last year’s debut as the only included pure-play Hadoop distribution vendor.     Cloudera University   Cloudera University is the leading provider of Apache Hadoop education, with classroom training in more than 50 cities around the world and online. We offer the most comprehensive suite of courses to address the Hadoop objectives of every data professional.   Apache Spark is a next-generation processing engine optimized for speed, ease of use, and advanced analytics well beyond batch.