SQL and Data Conference, SQLServerGeeks Annual Summit 2015 began in Bangalore at the NIMHANS Convention Centre today. The 3-day summit being attended by hundreds of SQL professionals will run till the 29th August. Organized by SQLServerGeeks.com and claimed to be the first ever such summit in Asia is featuring SQL Star Speakers such as Denny Cherry, Benjamin Nevarez, Praveen Srivatsa, Alberto Ferrari, Joey D Antoni, Dave Dustin, Vic Parmar, Andreas Volter, Stuart Padley, Lara Rubbelke, Scott Klein, Microsoft SQL Data Platform among others.
The world of data and cloud is evolving daily and today's enterprises across e-commerce, manufacturing, retail, healthcare segments among others are all getting on the data platform and experiencing the power of cloud in a big way. Data is central in all businesses and SQL, Cloud, DBA, Data Warehousing, Data Security, Open Source, Hybrid Cloud are getting critical and non-negotiable today.
Delivering the inaugural Keynote Address today Mr. T K Rengarajan, Corporate Vice President - Data Platform, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation said, “Data business is booming and the global data market that is available for data platforms to tap is a whopping USD 1.6 Trillion. Real companies make real products and real solutions based on data. Microsoft Data Strategy would be to maximise the value derived from all such accessible data. The strategy would be to go Cloud First with other things following. Microsoft data platform is evolved, reliable and people-focused and will be more productive and easily accessible to customers."
The Data Business at Microsoft manages 1.5 million databases and collects 70 TB of data daily. The key focus for the data platform would be to make data simpler and more capable. Till date SQL has been one of the greatest releases of Microsoft. At Microsoft we have assembled an incredible data platform and this is the beginning of another two decades of impressive data technology' he added.
Commenting on SSGAS 2015, Mr. Amit R S Bansal, Chairman of the Conference & Director of eDominer Systems, said, “Today, Data is the key to an organization’s success. With the right data, we can do wonders. Asia has a huge talent pool of data professionals. This summit, for the first time ever, has brought all SQL & Data professionals under one roof and will facilitate skills up-gradation and offer immense networking opportunity.”
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