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I continue to be amazed at the level of Hadoop at this conference. EMC World is primarily a storage conference and the storage teams are typically not involved in Hadoop efforts, so the fact that we can fill HUGE rooms at every Hadoop session just proves the technology is working its way into mainstream discussions. The Q/A has been great....very few follow up "what is Hadoop?" questions and lots of "can I do this?" questions. I have one more session in which I am speaking. I am working the Worldwide Hadoop booth again today. Like I said yesterday, this is an EMC community project that we are hoping to push out to the general Hadoop community in the form of an Apache project. There is a long way to go before we get there, but in a short period of time our Russian Center of Excellence built out a working prototype to help us demonstrate what we are thinking about. There are a variety of use case around why data can't be consolidated to one location, ...

I am officially back in the blogosphere. It will take me a bit to get into the swing of things, but I wanted to crank out a Day 1 blog so here goes. This year at EMC World has been a bit of a different experience for me. My role changed a bit this year, I have joined the Greenplum Product Architecture team. As a member of this team, I am tasked with working with Product Engeering to help them design products that meet customer needs. So, with that, I am working with field resources a good bit so I can gather those requirement. I am also tasked with driving products out of Engineering and into the field prior to there General Availability...so this includes POCs and Betas. EMCWorld is proving to be a treasure-trove of feedback since I am much more of an attendee than a worker-bee, but I do have a couple of responsibilities other than learning this week: Co-presenter on Optimizing Greenplum Database on a VMware Virtualized Infrastructure. So, what's a co-presenter? Well,...