The Fifth Elephant

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source solutions, taking a community-powered approach to provide reliable and high-performing cloud, virtualization, storage, Linux, and middleware technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services. And as the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat enables the creation of relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT. Red Hat is an S&P company with more than 70 offices spanning the globe, empowering our customers' businesses. For more information, please visit our website.

Splunk® Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk software collects, indexes and harnesses the massive machine data continuously generated by the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 4,000 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in over 80 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain operational intelligence that deepens business understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cyber-security risk. To learn more, please visit our website.

Flipkart.com is India's largest e-commerce brand, and it functions in 14 verticals and counting today. Flipkart has the data about customer preferences, buying habits, buying time series, demographics, propensity to call customer support, inventory planning including local component, geographic distribution of data etc. 

These needs demand a robust data platform to perform OLTP in an exponential growth and scale for Logs, Database, Messages and Cache layers. This leads to continuous innovation and improvement to enable system scaling. Similarly on an ever increasing data, performing Analytics for increasing personalization of recommendations, demand forecasting, inventory planning etc. At Fifth Elephant conference we will share some of our findings and learnings. 

Strand Life Sciences is a specialty bio- and chem-informatics company that spun-off from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India in 2000. Strand leverages its core strengths and intellectual property in algorithms, data mining, data visualization, predictive modeling, bioinformatics and computational chemistry to develop products and solutions for drug discovery. 

Avadis NGS is Strand's flagship product for the analysis of next-gen sequencing data. Strand’s software products are used by researchers worldwide for studying the expression of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP), pathway analysis, and Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS).

Strand is currently working on solutions for storing, accessing, visualizing and analyzing whole genome data for the emerging area of personalized medicine. The whole genome data for each individual runs into 100s of GBs and we are actively involved in solving the complex architectural and algorithmic hurdles that arise in this big data challenge in the life sciences.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Our company has packed a lot into a relatively young life. Since Google was founded in 1998, we’ve grown to serve hundreds of thousands of users and customers around the world.

ThoughtWorks is a global IT consultancy trusted by many of the world’s leading businesses with their most complex and critical systems. We deliver consulting grounded in reality, build custom applications and help organizations across all market sectors by bringing in business agility and enabling newer business models via technology solutions.

Neo4j is the world's leading graph database, an open source NoSQL solution for highly connected big data.

IBM is the only IT company in the world and also in India that offers end-to-end services and solutions – hardware, software, services and consulting – enabling clients to derive unmatched value by solving complex business and technical challenges. 

In India IBM has offices in 22 cities, with headquarters in Bangalore and regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Today, the company has established itself as one of the leaders in the Indian Information Technology (IT) Industry, providing a wide range of hardware, middleware and services offerings. 

India is also home to IBM’s largest global delivery teams across Infrastructure, Applications, Consulting, and Business Process Outsourcing. IBM India's solutions and services span all major industries, including financial services, healthcare, government, telecommunications and education, among others. It is the diversity and breadth of our portfolio -- spanning hardware, software, services, research, financing and technology -- that uniquely separates IBM India from other companies in the IT industry. 

IBM developerWorks is an invaluable resource on IBM products and other key technologies. To stay updated, network with SMEs and gain access to free downloads and lots more, please visit and join developerWorks

To attend IBM’s most awaited technology conclave on 9th August at the Leela Palace in Bangalore covering the latest and hottest trends in technology, register now at ibm.com/in/techforum

Enthought specialises in scientific computing, providing powerful tools for quantitative data analysis and visualization through its Python language distribution "EPD". Enthought provides intensive training in all aspects of the use of Python in developing powerful applications for scientific computing. Enthought has worked with several blue-chip clients to produce turn-key solutions for various scientific data analysis tools.