It's been a busy couple of weeks for us in big data land. One thing that struck me is how much we learned about the big data and analytics space after hours at Strata Hadoop, and sometimes that can be just as exciting as what we learn during the sessions. I have a couple of videos I like to share with you to prove my point.

In this video, I learned some things from Jim Scott, MapR. First, MapR is providing -and get ready because it's a mouthful-" an online, Interactive, platform neutral, vendor agnostic training" - and some cool use cases of a Hadoop cluster in a briefcase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPy6yT5GMo8

It's also fun to get together with our various partners and talk about the great solutions we are doing together. In this video, I have MapR and Platfora do all the work. Hey it was after hours!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adgb0raHt18

Want to learn more about what we are doing with our partners? Check out the Webinar At A Glance from our recent Big Data webcast, "Analytics Solutions for Driving Better Business Outcome," which is available on demand now. The feedback has been amazing and we plan to do more of these with our partners in the future.

Have some interesting stories or solutions you would like to share? Find me on Twitter, @JimMcHugh, we can work together to get the news out.