About the Authors
Dirk deRoos, B.C.S., B.A., is IBM’s World-Wide Technical Sales Leader for IBM’s Hadoop offering: BigInsights. Dirk provides technical guidance to IBM’s technical sales community and helps customers build solutions featuring BigInsights and Apache Hadoop.
Paul C. Zikopoulos, B.A., M.B.A., is the VP of Big Data and Technical Sales at IBM. He's an award winning speaker & writer, penning 18 books and 350+ articles. Independent groups often recognize Paul as a thought leader with nominations to SAP’s “Top 50 Big Data Twitter Influencers”, Big Data Republic’s “Most Influential”, Onalytica’s “Top 100”, and AnalyticsWeek “Thought Leader in Big Data and Analytics” lists. Technopedia listed him as a “Big Data Expert to Follow” and he was consulted on the topic of Big Data by the popular TV show 60 Minutes.
Bruce Brown, B.Sc. (C.S.), is a Big Data Technical Specialist at IBM, where he provides training to IBM's world-wide technical community and helps clients achieve success with BigInsights and Apache Hadoop.
Rafael Coss, M.C.S., is a Solution Architect and manages IBM's World Wide Big Data Enablement team based in IBM Silicon Valley Lab, where he’s responsible for the technical development of partnerships and customer advocates for IBM's Big Data portfolio.
Roman B. Melnyk, Ph.D., is a senior member of the IBM DB2 Information Development team. Roman edited DB2 10.5 with BLU Acceleration: New Dynamic In-Memory Analytics for the Era of Big Data, Harness the Power of Big ...
