HP Vertica is the next-generation analytics platform that enables customers to monetize all of their data. HP Vertica’s elasticity, scale, performance, and simplicity are unparalleled, delivering 50x-1000x the performance of traditional solutions at 30% the total cost of ownership. Easy to use and deploy on off-the-shelf hardware, virtual machines, or in the cloud, HP Vertica enables organizations to get up and running quickly and easily to analyze their mission-critical data. HP Vertica powers some of the largest organizations and most innovative business models globally including Zynga, Groupon, Twitter, Verizon, Guess Inc., Admeld, Capital IQ, Mozilla, AT&T, and Comcast.

HPCC Systems® from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven, data-intensive supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise to process and solve Big Data analytical problems. As a superior alternative to Hadoop and legacy technology, HPCC Systems offers a consistent data-centric programming language, two processing platforms and a single, complete end-to-end architecture for efficient processing. For more information, visit HPCC Systems at http://hpccsystems.com. Connect with us on Twitter (@hpccsystems), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/hpccsystems) and LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/company/hpcc-systems)

MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop, making managing and analyzing Big Data a reality for more business users. The award-winning MapR Distribution brings unprecedented dependability, speed and ease-of-use to Hadoop. Combined with data protection and business continuity, MapR enables customers to harness the power of Big Data analytics. Leading companies including Amazon, Cisco, EMC and Google partner with MapR to deliver an enterprise-grade Hadoop solution.

Altoros provides specialized big data implementation services with one of the largest pools of Hadoop/NoSQL engineering expertise on the market. Altoros employs 200+ engineers and consultants across the US, Eastern Europe, Argentina, UK, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway. Specialized solutions include real-time stream processing, automated device analytics, advertising analytics and genome sequencing across private and public clouds.

Cloudera is the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services and offers a powerful new data platform that enables enterprises and organizations to look at all their data — structured as well as unstructured — and ask bigger questions for unprecedented insight at the speed of thought.

Paradigm4 helps companies solve their toughest ‘big data’ analytical and data management challenges with a next generation analytical platform, SciDB. We power Big Math and data-driven discovery for the new types of Big Data being generated today like geospatial data, sensor data, genomics data, energy data, and e-commerce data.

Think Big Analytics provides data science and engineering services for Big Data and Big Analytics projects. The company specializes in modernizing clients' architectures and building predictive models that support top and bottom line growth.

Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make your business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond your reach. While much of the big data activity in the market up to now has been experimenting and learning about big data technologies, IBM has been focused on also helping organizations understand what problems big data can address and how to take action. Learn more at: www.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/

QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK) is a leader in Business Discovery—user-driven Business Intelligence (BI). Its QlikView Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional BI solutions and inadequate spreadsheet applications. The in-memory associative search technology allows users to explore information freely rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions.

SoftNAS™ LLC is a storage software company for small to medium businesses, data centers and cloud computing customers. The SoftNAS cloud storage OS℠ is adaptable to any cloud computing environment or software configuration, whether true cloud platforms, such as Amazon EC2, or private clouds running VMware® or Microsoft® Hyper-V®.

Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide, Tableau’s award-winning software delivers fast analytics and rapid-fire business intelligence. Create visualizations and dashboards in minutes, then share in seconds. The result? You get answers from data quickly, with no programming required.