Solix Announces Big Data Event, Solix EMPOWER 2016

Industry leaders and experts to share the latest insight on analytics, big data and cloud technologies in the dawn of big data applications

July 20, 2016 — San Jose, CA — Solix Technologies, Inc. (www.solix.com), a leader in empowering data-driven enterprises, today announced Solix EMPOWER (https://empower.solix.com/), a one-day education and networking event dedicated to analytics, big data and cloud innovations and applications. The event will take place at the Northeastern University – Silicon Valley campus in San Jose on September 18th, 2016.

Solix EMPOWER will feature insight from industry experts to explore how data-driven enterprises are leveraging emerging big data applications to meet the challenges of today and drive the innovations of tomorrow. Key speakers at this year’s event will include:

Herb Cunitz, President at Hortonworks
Eli Collins, Chief Technologist at Cloudera
Solomon Darwin, Executive Director at UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business
P.K. Agarwal, CEO and Regional Dean at Northeastern University – SV
Joydeep Das, Chief Operating Officer at KloudData Inc.
Sai Gundavelli, CEO and Founder at Solix Technologies, Inc.
John Ottman, Executive Chairman at Solix Technologies, Inc.

The Solix EMPOWER agenda will give attendees an inside look at the latest big data technologies through presentations, chats and panel discussions. Key topics will include:

Big Data Analytics
Data-Driven Banks
Data Security
The Data-Driven Enterprise
Enterprise Archiving
Data Lakes
Application Retirement
Innovations in Big Data & Beyond

In addition, attendees can network with fellow industry leaders over refreshments in the Partner Pavilion. The growing list of Solix EMPOWER sponsors currently includes:

Cloudera
Hortonworks
University of California – Berkeley
San Jose State University
KloudData
Minds.com
Emagia Corporation
HCL
Touch-A-Life Foundation

All proceeds from Solix EMPOWER registrations will go to the Touch-A-Life Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports homeless high school students. To learn more, visit www.touchalife.org.

“Our goal with Solix EMPOWER is to provide valuable insight on the latest big data technologies, while giving attendees an opportunity to network with fellow industry leaders and experts. We also hope that our charity efforts will help foster the next generation of technologists,” said Sai Gundavelli, CEO of Solix Technologies, Inc.

Early bird registration for Solix EMPOWER is now open, with discounts for students, government, non-profits and company teams. To register, visit https://empower.solix.com/register-now/

If you are interested in speaking at or sponsoring Solix EMPOWER, please visit https://empower.solix.com/sponsor

About Solix Technologies

Solix Technologies, Inc., is a leading big data application provider that empowers data-driven enterprises with optimized infrastructure, data security and advanced analytics. Solix Common Data Platform (CDP) provides end-to-end data fabric, data governance, data security, data discovery, and a unified Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) framework for Enterprise Archiving and Enterprise Data Lake applications, deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or both. SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving is the world’s first archiving as-a-service solution built on the Solix CDP and hosted on Microsoft Azure, enabling enterprises to strengthen their data management processes with cloud-based Application Retirement, Email Archiving, File Archiving, and Database Archiving. Solix is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and operates worldwide through an established network of value added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators. To learn more, please visit https://www.solix.com

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