Events
Upcoming Events
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"Where's Waldo? Advanced Analytics for Location and Network Intelligence" webinar
September 23
Learn how how you can improve: Network intelligence via graph analysis to understand connectivity among suspects, information propagation, and the flow of goods; Security analysis to prevent fraud, bot attacks, and other breaches; Geospatial analytics to quickly uncover details about regions and subsets within those communities; and Visual analytics to derive deeper insights more quickly.
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Big Data Insights Summit Chicago
September 30 in Chicago, IL
Aster Data, MicroStrategy, SAS, Dell, and analyst James Kobielus of Forrester Research will discuss innovative new solutions and trends in big data management and advanced analytics.
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TDWI Solution Summit: Deep Analytics for Big Data
October 3-5 in San Diego, CA
The TDWI Solution Summit shows you how to compete using analytics.
Aster Data will exhibit and present a customer case study.
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Hadoop World 2010
October 12 in New York City
Join your colleagues and community for an engaging and educational day, plus terrific networking at the closing cocktail reception.

SAS M2010 Data Mining Conference
October 25-26 in Las Vegas, NV
The M2010 Data Mining Conference brings together the brightest analytical minds and hundreds of data mining professionals to share the latest research and trends in the field.
Past Events
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"Harnessing the Power of Cloud Infrastructure to Supercharge Analytics" webinar
August 26
Learn how to: address the challenges of advanced analytics with a new approach and architecture that scales to big data; access the compute power you need with the flexibility and affordability of industry-standard servers; and build a massively-scalable, high performance, cost-effective solution with Aster Data's innovative software and Dell's optimized infrastructure.
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TDWI BI Executive Summit
August 16-18 in San Diego, CA
Aster Data exhibited and presented at the event.
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TDWI World Conference
August 16-18 in San Diego, CA
Aster Data exhibited throughout the event.
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"Explore Terabytes of Customer Data in Minutes: Build More Powerful Analytic Applications with SQL-MapReduce" webinar
July 29
Learn how to: Obtain immediate business value with pre-built graph, collaborative filtering, and text functions delivered through Aster Data; Build rich analytics in hours using the powerful SQL-MapReduce framework; and Accelerate analytic application performance 8-10x by processing 100% of your analytics in-database with the our data-analytics server.

MicroStrategy World 2010 Cannes
July 5-8 in Cannes, France
Aster Data customer LinkedIn presented on "Large Scale BI and Analytics."
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BigDataCamp
June 28 in Santa Clara, CA
BigDataCamp was an unconference for users of MapReduce, Hadoop and related technologies to exchange ideas. Attendees shared thoughts in open discussions with pre-defined and majority-vote topics, including best practices in application development and advanced analytics.

Cloud for the Enterprise
June 24 in New York City
The AWS on-demand resources combined with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) allow you to use your choice of operating system and programming tools for moving your corporate applications into AWS, helping you spend less time procuring or managing IT resources and more time focusing on your business.
AWS Start-Up Project Event
June 25 in New York City
Amazon Web Services demonstrated how entrepreneurs, technologists, and business leaders can get started with AWS infrastructure services and how to architect applications for the cloud.
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"Cross-channel Attribution: Using SQL-MapReduce for Search and Social Marketing Analysis" webinar
June 23
Attend this webinar to hear Richard Zwicky, Founder and President of Eightfold Logic, share his best practices for cross-channel online marketing analysis using the industry's first massive parallel processing database to deliver native MapReduce integration.
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"A Look Under the Hood: SQL-based Analytics at Internet Scale with Mapreduce" webinar
May 27
Watch this on-demand webinar to hear Rick van der Lans, Chairman of the European Data Warehouse Conference, explain how to obtain faster and deeper analysis on an Internet scale using advanced in-database analytics.
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2010 Annual Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference
May 23-26 in Phoenix, AZ
Aster Data exhibited throughout the event.
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TDWI World Conference
May 11-12 in Chicago, IL
Aster Data representatives exhibited throughout the event.
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Big Data Summit Washington, D.C.
May 6 in Washington, D.C.
comScore, SAS, MicroStrategy, Carahsoft, Aster Data and analysts Curt Monash and James Kobielus discussed innovative new solutions and trends in big data management and advanced analytics.
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Big Data Summit Dallas
April 27 in Dallas, TX
ShareThis, industry analyst Colin White, MicroStrategy, Dell, and Aster Data discussed innovative new solutions and trends in big data management and advanced analytics.

Collaborate10
April 19-21 in Las Vegas, NV
Aster Data exhibited throughout the event.

Best Practices in Business Intelligence including Business Analytics & Data Warehousing
April 20 in Chicago, IL
Aster Data Midwest Director Rick DeMare presented on next-generation database technology.

SAS Global Forum
April 11-14 in Seattle, WA
Aster Data representatives exhibited throughout the event.

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2010
April 12-14 in Las Vegas, NV
Aster Data exhibited throughout the event.

AFCEA Homeland Security Conference
February 24-25 in Washington, D.C.
Aster Data representatives exhibited throughout the event.
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TDWI World Conference
February 23-24 in Las Vegas, NV
Aster Data representatives exhibited throughout the event.
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Big Data Summit Bay Area
February 18 in Burlingame, CA
Intuit, Mobclix, analyst Merv Adrian and Aster Data discussed innovative new solutions and trends in big data management and advanced analytics.
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AlwaysOn OnMedia 2010
February 1-3 in New York City
Aster Data presented on February 2.

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2010
February 1-2 in London
Aster Data exhibited throughout the event.

MicroStrategy World 2010
January 25-28 in Las Vegas, NV
Aster Data exhibited throughout the event. ShareThis presented on business intelligence and data warehousing in the cloud.
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"All That Glitters is Not Gold - Mixed Workload Management Myths Demystified" webinar
January 12
Join Aster Data on this educational webinar as we demystify the common myths associated with dynamic mixed workload management.

Mastering MapReduce Webinar Series
Session 2: "Supercharging Customer/Data Analytics with MapReduce"
December 3
Curt Monash and MapReduce expert Jonathan Goldman explain how MapReduce enables advanced customer analytics and helps enterprises do fraud detection, graph analysis, sessionization and market basket analysis more effectively.

"Bringing Big Data Analytics to the Enterprise
- A New Era in Data Management" webinar
November 12
Merv Adrian explains how to bridge the data-application gap and drastically reduce query response times from hours to minutes or even seconds.

ApacheCon US 2009
November 2-6 in Oakland, CA
Aster Data exhibited throughout the event.
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TDWI World Conference
November 3-4 in Orlando, FL
Aster Data representatives exhibited Aster Data Version 4.0.
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Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Conference Europe 2009
November 2-4 in London, UK
Aster Data representatives exhibited throughout the event.

SAS M2009 Data Mining Conference
October 26-27 in Las Vegas, NV
SAS and Aster Data presented "Advanced Analytics on Multi-Terabyte Datasets" on Tuesday, October 27, explaining how the tight coupling of SQL and MapReduce provided by Aster Data creates new big data analytics opportunities when combined with SAS. Aster representatives exhibited throughout the event.

Business Intelligence in the Cloud: Scaling Your Data Warehouse Cost-Effectively with Aster Data" webinar
October 21
Amazon Web Services and Aster Data explain how to scale your data warehouse cost-efficiently without impacting performance. Learn how ShareThis, an online content share services company, analyzes their data in a multi-terabyte system in the cloud for huge cost savings and performance improvements.

Mastering MapReduce Webinar Series
Session 1: “Big Data Reality: The Role of MapReduce in Big Data Management and Analysis”
October 15
In this on-demand webcast, analyst Curt Monash explains the basics of MapReduce, key uses cases, and which industries and applications are heavily using MapReduce. Monash includes recommendations for integrating MapReduce in an enterprise business intelligence and data warehousing environment.

Oracle OpenWorld 2009
October 11-15 in San Francisco, CA
Aster will demonstrate rich analytics run on its nCluster database.
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Big Data Summit
October 1 in New York City
Aster Data, Informatica, and MicroStrategy put together an informal evening event to discuss advancements in data warehousing and big data management. Similar to ScaleCamp, where 100s of folks attended, Big Data Summit showcased some of the most innovative uses of Hadoop and other complementary solutions that harness the power of big data. Presenters included Jonathan Goldman, former Principal Scientist for LinkedIn, Michael Brown and Will Duckworth, EVP of Software Engineering and Director of Software Engineering for comScore, and Colin White, President and Founder of BI Research. Big Data Summit was colocated with Hadoop World: NYC.
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ComputerWorld BI Perspectives
September 15-16 in Chicago, IL
Mike Jones, COO of MySpace, discussed how MySpace warehouses more than 7 billion daily events from 120 million users. Aster representatives exhibited throughout the event.

VLDB 09
August 24-28 in Lyon, France
Aster Data presented on improving join throughput in large-scale, high-concurrency data warehouses, as well as how SQL-MapReduce functions overcome the limitations of user-defined functions.
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TDWI World Conference
August 2-7 in San Diego, CA
Aster Data customer ShareThis spoke during the TDWI BI Executive Summit and Aster representatives exhibited at the World Conference.

GigaOM's Structure 09
June 25 in San Francisco, CA
Aster Data CTO Tasso Argyros joined the panel "From Databases to Dataspaces."
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Business Objects New York Metropolitan Area User Group
June 3 in New York City
Aster Data explained how Business Objects users can perform more new types of analytics with Aster nCluster In-Database MapReduce.

Web 3.0 Conference
May 19-20 in New York City
Aster Data CEO Mayank Bawa joined the panel "Exploring the Implications of Massive Computing Power in the Cloud."
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TDWI World Conference
May 3-8 in Chicago, IL
Aster Data representatives exhibited May 5-6.
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"MapReduce for Data Warehousing and Analytics" webinar
March 19
Learn how In-Database MapReduce can create competitive advantages through in-depth analytics for a variety of industries, including telecommunications, retail, finance, and government. The featured speaker is Anand Rajaraman, founder of Kosmix and Consulting Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit
March 9-11 in National Harbor, MD
Aster Data representatives exhibited and demoed nCluster, and MySpace and Aster presented on data warehousing for mission-critical applications.
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TDWI World Conference
February 22-27 in Las Vegas, NV
Aster Data representatives exhibited Feb. 24-25.
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TDWI Northwest Chapter Panel
January 29 in Bellevue, WA
Aster Data Architect Daniel Faria joined a panel of data warehousing providers and innovators to discuss the next generation of approaches to data warehousing.

MicroStrategy World 2009
January 13-16 in Las Vegas, NV
Aster Data representatives demoed MicroStrategy tools on top of an nCluster database.

USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
December 8-10 in San Diego, CA
Aster Data Co-Founder George Candea presented on "Deadlock Immunity: Enabling Systems to Defend Against Deadlocks."
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HotDep
December 7 in San Diego, CA
Aster Data Co-Founder George Candea presented "Toward Quantifying System Manageability."
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TDWI Fall 2008 World Conference
November 2-7 in New Orleans, LA
Aster Data CTO Tasso Argyros presented the Night School session "Introduction to MapReduce Data Transformations."

Defrag 2008
November 3-4 in Denver, CO
Aster Data CEO Mayank Bawa explained how businesses can be "Leveraging Data to form Closed-Loop Decision Processes."

Net.Finance East
October 28-29 in New York City
Aster Data representatives discussed how financial services marketers can benefit by leveraging massive data sets for deep customer and market insights.

Business Objects User Conference
October 20-22 in Dallas, TX
Aster Data joined partner Analytics 8 at the conference and presented techniques for making Xcelsius dashboards faster and smarter.

Analytics 8 Roundtable Discussion
October 2 in Chicago, IL
Aster Data CTO Tasso Argyros joined the discussion on real-time data warehousing, ever-increasing data volumes, enterprise BI, and dashboards that go beyond flash. Click the above logo to register.
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TDWI World Conference
August 20 in San Diego, CA
Aster Data CTO Tasso Argyros joined the discussion on how data warehouse appliances can help you solve your business intelligence challenges.

CableLabs Summer Conference 2008
August 10-13 in Keystone, CO
Aster Data representatives demonstrated how the cable industry can leverage the massive amount of data generated by the digitization of television to gain deep customer insights for optimized marketing and pricing.
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GigaOM's Structure 08
June 25 in San Francisco, CA
Aster Data CEO Mayank Bawa joined a panel of industry leaders and visionaries to provide his view of the Internet infrastructure of the future.
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