Presented By
O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
Jian Zhang

Jian Zhang
Senior Software Engineer Manager, Intel

Jian Zhang is a senior software engineer manager at Intel, where he and his team primarily focus on open source storage development and optimizations on Intel platforms and build reference solutions for customers. He has 10 years of experience doing performance analysis and optimization for open source projects like Xen, KVM, Swift, and Ceph and working with Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and benchmarking workloads like SPEC and TPC. Jian holds a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Sessions

11:15–11:55 Thursday, 2 May 2019
Big data analytics in the public cloud: Challenges and opportunities
Data Engineering and Architecture
 Location: S11 B
Secondary topics:  AI and Data technologies in the cloud
Jian Zhang (Intel), Chendi Xue (Intel), Yuan Zhou (Intel)
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Jian Zhang, Chendi Xue, and Yuan Zhou explore the challenges of migrating big data analytics workloads to the public cloud (e.g., performance lost and missing features) and demonstrate how to use a new in-memory data accelerator leveraging persistent memory and RDMA NICs to resolve this issues and enable new opportunities for big data workloads on the cloud. Read more.