For those in the Boston area:
The Boston "Big Data Summit" will be holding its first meeting on Thursday, October 22nd 2009 at 6pm at the Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag in Waltham, MA.
The Boston area is home to a large number of companies involved in the collection, storage, analysis, data integration, data quality, master data management, and archival of "Big Data". If you are involved in any of these, then the meeting of the Boston "Big Data Summit" is something you should plan to attend. Save the date!
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