Big data.  It’s all Silicon Valley is talking about.  And it’s all our Under the Radar judges seem to care about.  Of course the term ‘big data’ has become about as nebulous as the word ‘cloud.’  A few months ago we authored a post called , What the f*ck is Big Data? highlighting all the ways it’s used from monitoring to processing to storage to analysis.  In talking to CIOs and VPs of Technology at Visa, Citigroup, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Levi’s and WebMD, two things popped to the top of the list as major priorities:

#1 Processing big data (in terms of database scalability). Startups like MemSQL, ScaleArc, NimbusDB all play in this space to improve performance.

#2 Analyzing big data. Companies like Datasift, Chart.io, and Metamarkets are all working toward gathering and analyzing internal and external data sets.

Do you have a technology solution that tackles big data?  Our judges are interested in you!  Apply to present at our Under the Radar conference!