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Is your cloud ready for Big Data? Strata NY 2013

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Richard McDougall

Big Data/Hadoop Infrastructure Considerations

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Building Big Data Applications

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Hadoop I/O Analysis

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Apachecon Euro 2012: Elastic, Multi-tenant Hadoop on Demand

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Solaris Internals Preso circa 2009

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Inside the Hadoop Machine @ VMworld

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Hadoop on Virtual Machines

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Virtualizing Oracle Databases with VMware

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Virtualization Primer for Java Developers

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Hadoop on VMware

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Architecting Virtualized Infrastructure for Big Data

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VMware Performance for Gurus - A Tutorial

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Richard's interest and expertise is in the areas of high scale application architecture, performance measurement and optimization of system and application architectures. 

Richard McDougall is currently the Application Infrastructure CTO and Big Data/Hadoop lead in the Office of the CTO at VMware. He is responsible for driving advanced development and strategy for VMware's application platform architecture - including the performance and integration of applications, runtimes, middleware, and application encapsulation technologies. 

Richard authored the book "Solaris Internals" (Prentice Hall) with Jim Mauro, and is the lead author for "Resource Management" (Prentice Hall/Sun Blueprints...