Elephant Scale Announces its DARPA Involvement and New Training at Enterprise Data World in Washington, DC
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) March 30, 2015 -- Elephant Scale LLC (http://elephantscale.com/), a Houston/San Jose-based a consulting and training firm, announced today that it has been awarded a contract by DARPA, to develop technologies that combine advanced web crawling, text analytics, and Big Data to combat human trafficking. This is the Memex DARPA program, explained by the DARPA program’s director, Dr. Christopher White, in his interview for London’s Global Post (http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/rights/dod-darpa-using-big-data-combat-sex-trafficking). The official press release by Hyperion Gray, the primary contractor, is found on its website.
Also today, Sujee Maniyam, the founding partner of Elephant Scale, has delivered his popular “Hadoop Essentials for Architects” workshop, as part of Enterprise Data World, held at Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC, on March 29-April 3, 2015. At this workshop, Sujee announced that Elephant Scale will soon offer its new Apache Spark course, created by the best course writers in the industry.
On the second day of Enterprise Data World, Sujee is going to deliver a ground-breaking “Reference Data Infrastructure for Internet of Things (IoT)”. (http://edw2015.dataversity.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=87&proposalid=7265)The “Hadoop Essentials” being well-received, tomorrow’s presentation on the IoT is expected to draw an even larger audience.
About Elephant Scale
Elephant Scale LLC (http://elephantscale.com/) was founded in 2013 by two industry veterans, Mark Kerzner and Sujee Maniyam. Since then, it has delivered hundreds of high quality trainings to thousands of students, published innovative research, provided strategic Big Data consulting to multiple customers, and developed Big Data products.
Elephant Scale is known for its public educational efforts, such as an open source book on Hadoop, “Hadoop Illuminated,” (http://hadoopilluminated.com). Their latest book, “HBase Design Patterns,” has been recently published by Packt.
For more information, write to info(at)elephantscale(dot)com, call 713-568-9753, or visit the web site http://elephantscale.com.
Mark Kerzner, Elephant Scale LLC, http://elephantscale.com, +1 7135689753, [email protected]
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