SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 16, 2015) - Glassbeam, Inc., the machine data analytics company, today announced that Mohammed Guller, principal architect at Glassbeam, will lead a hands-on session on "Big Data Analytics with Spark" at the Global Big Data Conference's Big Data Bootcamp, taking place Jan. 16-18 in Santa Clara, Calif.

Workshop at-a-Glance
What: "Big Data Analytics with Spark" full-day workshop
Where: Global Big Data Conference's Big Data Bootcamp
When: Sunday, Jan. 18, starting at 9 a.m. PT
Who: Mohammed Guller, principal architect, Glassbeam
How: Register at http://globalbigdataconference.com/43/santa-clara/big-data-bootcamp/registration.html

Workshop Description
In this hands-on workshop, Mohammed will deliver a full-day session on Spark, a fast general-purpose framework for large-scale data analysis. Today, many organizations are switching from Hadoop MapReduce to Spark, making Spark one of the hottest open-source big data related projects. In the first session of the two-part workshop, attendees will learn about Spark and Spark libraries, including Spark SQL, Spark Streaming and Spark MLlib. Attendees will also learn Scala, a popular functional programming language commonly used for writing Spark applications. The afternoon session is a hands-on session, where attendees will get the opportunity to do different types of data analysis, using Scala, Spark and Spark libraries on personal laptops.

About the Speaker
Mohammed Guller is the principal architect for Glassbeam. His expertise is in big data, analytics and cloud-based products. He has more than 18 years of experience leading the development of several products from concept to release. Prior to joining Glassbeam, Mohammed was the founder of TrustRecs, a social recommendation application, and a former client executive at IBM. Mohammed has an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

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About Glassbeam
Glassbeam is the machine data analytics company focused on Internet of Complex Things. Bringing structure and meaning to data from any connected device, Glassbeam provides actionable intelligence with its proactive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Glassbeam's next generation cloud-based analytics platform is designed to organize and analyze multi-structured data, delivering powerful product and customer intelligence for companies including IBM, Aruba Networks, Violin Memory, and Meru Networks. For more information, visit www.glassbeam.com.