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BigDataExpo New York Speaker Profile: Tom Leyden – Amplidata

Tom Leyden – Director of Alliances at Amplidata
By Jeremy Geelan
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May 17, 2012 02:00 AM EDT
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With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, now just four weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...?

We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...?

BIGDATAEXPO EXPO SPEAKER NAME: TomLeyden

TWITTER: @tomme and @amplidata

COMPANY: Amplidata

BIGDATAEXPO EXPO SESSION TITLE: Best Practices for Big Unstructured Data Storage

SESSION DESCRIPTION: http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2143302

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: Tom Leyden is Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, a Belgian Object Storage Innovator. He joined Amplidata in 2009 to drive the company’s marketing, product management and PR strategies.

Leyden has 15 years’ experience working for disruptive IT companies (from emerging stage to acquisition) including four years in cloud computing. Through his collaboration with Belgium-based technology incubator Incubaid, he has been involved in several successful startups, including data deduplication pioneer DataCenter Technologies and cloud Innovator Q-layer.

BLOG: Leyden writes regularly on Big Data topics here.

RECENT BIG DATA QUOTE:

"There are two kinds of Big Data: Big Data (for analytics) and Big Unstructured Data.

The new paradigm that will help us store massive amounts of unstructured data is Object Storage. Object Storage systems are uniformly scalable pools of storage that are accessible through a REST interface. Files – objects – are dumped into the pool and an identifier is kept to locate the object when it is needed. Applications that are designed to run on top of object storage will use these identifiers through the REST protocol. A good analogy is parking your car Valet vs. self park. When you self park you have to remember the lot, the floor, the isle etc (file system); with Valet you get a receipt when you give your keys and you will later use that receipt to get your car back. Big Data for analytics is a paradigm that became popular in the previous decade. "

[from Tom Leyden's Ulitzer blog]

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Jeremy Geelan is President & COO of Cloud Expo, Inc. and Conference Chair of the worldwide Cloud Expo series. He appears regularly at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of Cloud Expo's "Power Panels" on SYS-CON.TV.

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