 Live from Midtown Manhattan, The Cube's live coverage of Big Data NYC, a Silicon Angle Wikibon production. Made possible by Hortonworks, we do Hadoop, and when this goes, Hadoop is made invincible. And now your co-hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Hi everybody, this is Dave Vellante with Jeff Kelly. We're with wikibon.org and this is Silicon Angles with our continuous coverage of Big Data NYC, our own production really. We're across the street from the Hilton Hotel where Hadoop world is going on and StrataConf. This is our fourth year covering this event and we want to thank our sponsors, Juan Disco and Hortonworks for making this possible. And we had a great party last night. I'm here with Jeff. Cube party was amazing. Had a couple hundred people here. Some awesome business conversations going on. People talking about the Hadoop ecosystem and really it was a lot of fun seeing many of our friends, a lot of the Cube alums and future Cube guests. It was just really fantastic. So thanks everybody for coming to that and look forward to other events in the future. So we're here, this is day two and a half here at Big Data NYC. We started on Monday evening and then really sort of did a little warm up. And then yesterday we had a number of guests really talking about the evolution of Hadoop, how the infrastructure is emerging, how we've seen diverging opinions. Some say the infrastructure wars are over, the distribution wars are over, others debate that. But clearly there's still a lack of really commercial grade applications. A lot of people are having to build those applications themselves. There are still a lot of talk about skill set gaps but we're down in the financial services sector, capital of the world and Wall Street. Clearly, Jeff Kelly, this segment of the world is picking up on Hadoop, they're picking up on Big Data, trying to understand and understanding the value that data can bring in areas like risk management, obviously like in marketing and ultimately working toward fraud. So what's your take on everything that's going on this week? Well it's an exciting week, as you said. It's interesting, we're hearing the conversation around Hadoop change a little bit. Scott Houser, a friend of ours, I believe last night mentioned something like we're hearing less about kind of are you using Hadoop? To what distribution are you using? So it's moving, the conversation's moving into how do we make this production grade? How do we scale this out? How do we do real things with it that are gonna impact the business? And as you said, financial services is one area which they were one of the early adopters I think of this technology. They've been a very data intensive business for a long time with CEP engines and kind of real time trading. And now that you can bring, they can scale out those kind of solutions thanks to Hadoop and other technologies in the big data space just trying to improve those capabilities and add new ones. So a lot happening and some good stuff. Now so I wanna just let you guys know so John Furrier is gonna be here in a minute. Right now he's setting up a crowd chat so I don't know if you guys follow the Stratoconf hashtag yesterday but it was really spammy. It looked like kind of the hashtag that you'd see at the Oscars or the Super Bowl. Just moving really fast. A lot of spammers hitting in. So John Furrier right now is setting up a crowd chat daily that will allow us to go to a spam-free zone and have a conversation about big data and Hadoop. We're gonna use the Stratoconf hashtag but so go to crowdchat.net. Crowdchat.net and you'll see we've set up a crowd chat on Stratoconf. So go in there, we'll be posting questions. We'll be reviewing theCUBE guests, the epic moments on theCUBE and we'll be putting forth some key comments that CUBE guests make all day. We'd love to hear from you. It's a spam-free zone. Spam bots cannot get in. You gotta sign in to actually post within this crowd chat. So check out crowdchat.net. John Furrier's here, John, welcome. That was a great idea that you had, setting that up. Great party last night. What's going on? Great, Dave, thanks. Morning everyone. crowdchat.net, we're gonna set this up right now. I'm in the process of putting the logo up and we'll do three hours, I think three hours open chat for the morning. But things are going great, Dave. Last night we had our big data event here. It was more of an appreciation event. We had the commemorative CUBE Shot Glass as our first ever commemorative giveaway. We CSense won the grand prize of the Nexus 7 which we gave away. Just a small token of our appreciation for the community and support of theCUBE. Again, that was sponsored by Hortonworks and WAN Disco, great supporters of the community. Certainly it's supporting theCUBE and what our mission is, we love those guys. So great, great day. Yesterday a lot of action, a lot of great conversations. Today we're going to try to document these conversations both here on theCUBE, these conversations on theCUBE, as well as on the crowd chat. So go to crowdchat.net, you'll see upcoming crowd chat. We're going to get that on Twitter as well. We're going to just reduce some real time conversation documentation, get this on the network. And again, see, looking for engagement retweets, et cetera, we're looking for conversations. Go to crowdchat.net. Great lineup today, Dave. We have an amazing set of guests. We're going to have Sean Connolly, EPA Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks. And that should be a very interesting conversation. Love talking strategy, love talking about the chess board. Certainly things are starting to settle in relative to the market. And Hortonworks plays a good strategy game. But more importantly, they've never changed course on their strategy. So I want to hear what he thinks about the moves. More importantly, people are making money now, Dave. So that's the big conversation throughout yesterday, last night, and through today. We're going to talk about the business opportunity, the business case, or TAM, as you say. You know what else, John? We have the Dean of Big Data coming in, Bill Schmarzo, as you named him, the Dean of the Dean of Big Data. He's got some books that he's going to sign. So we're looking forward to having Bill on. We're going to have also a couple of notables. Spotify is going to come in. Very successful conversation yesterday around their use case of Hadoop. We're also going to have some folks from Apache come in as well at Apache Software Foundation. We want to really, to me, what's interesting is that the open source business model isn't your grandfather's open source business model like it was. A lot of similarities with Red Hat, a lot of similarities with J-Boss and other successful open source products. But at the end of the day, a new modern era is kicking in. So that's what we're looking forward to. Awesome, so we're going to get started right away. Sean Connelly's coming up in Hortonworks. So keep it right there, we're right back. This is theCUBE. John Ferrier, Dave Vellante, and Jeff Kelly. We'll be right back. This is a live mobile studio. We bring it to events, and we say we extract the signal from the noise. What we do is we get the absolute best guests that are at those events. We bring them inside theCUBE, and we talk to them. We have a conversation.