Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Imagine you are a young entrepreneur today starting a company. Where do you see some open problems that you think are worth working on? Josh Rogers: There is a debate happening on what Hadoop is. I would suggest people to look at it as an operating system. Think about the set of services

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So you are basically accelerating the sort process. Josh Rogers: I would say we started with that basic technology on the mainframe. What we are doing today is accelerating all sorts of correlated processing functions. Whether that is aggregation, a join or a filtering process, we have technologies that allow you to accomplish

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Does that mean they are giving comScore access to their Google Analytics? Josh Rogers: No. They will download a piece of software that sits in the browser and that sends the information back to comScore.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: From among the 2,000 customers you cater to, let’s do a few use cases of the kinds of business applications you are facilitating. Josh Rogers: We see a few different scenarios where people are struggling. We have a number of customers that have made large investments in data warehousing environments. Perhaps they made

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 1)

Josh Rogers is the senior vice president of Data Integration Business at Syncsort. Josh holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in economics from Davidson College. He had previously worked for Bank of America, Endeca, and IBM and has more than six years of experience in data management. In this interview he

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