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Paul Zikopoulos (IBM) Interview -- Strata + Hadoop 2014

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From the 2014 Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York City, an interview with IBM's VP of Big Data, Competitive, and Techsales on the importance and dangers of analytics and big data, IBM's Big Match, and more.

About Paul Zikopoulos:
Competitive Database and Big Data teams. Paul is an award winning writer and speaker with more than 20 years of experience in Information Management and is seen as a global expert in Big Data and Analytic technologies. Independent groups often recognize Paul as a thought leader with nominations to SAP’s “Top 50 Big Data Twitter Influencers”, Big Data Republic’s “Most Influential”, Onalytica’s “Top 100”, and AnalyticsWeek “Thought Leader in Big Data and Analytics” lists. Technopedia listed him a “Big Data Expert to Follow” and he was consulted on the topic of Big Data by the popular TV show “60 Minutes”. Paul has written more than 350 magazine articles and 18 books, some of which include “Hadoop for Dummies”, “Harness the Power of Big Data”, “Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data”, “New Dynamic In-Memory Analytics for the Era of Big Data: DB2 10.5”, “DB2 pureScale: Risk Free Agile Scaling”, “DB2 Certification for Dummies”, “DB2 for Dummies”, and more. In his spare time, he enjoys all sorts of sporting activities, including running with his dog Chachi, swimming, and overall fitness training (he no longer worries about avoiding punches in his MMA training as an eventual understanding that he became too slow for full contact forced him into retirement). Ultimately, Paul is trying to figure out the world according to Chloë—his daughter.

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