Robert D. Schneider is a senior consultant and trainer. He has provided distributed computing, database optimization, and other technical expertise to a wide variety of enterprises in the financial, technology, and government sectors.Clients have included Chase Manhattan Bank, VISA, HP, S.W.I.F.T., and the governments of the United States, Brazil, and Malaysia. Robert has written six books and numerous articles on advanced technical topics such as Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), open source, and relational database design/optimization. He is a frequent organizer and presenter at technology industry events, worldwide.
Talks I've Given
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Big Data, NoSQL, MapReduce, and Hadoop
Featuring Robert Schneider
There’s no way around it: learning about Big Data means getting comfortable with all sorts of new terms and ideas, many of which overlap. In this talk, Robert will explain what Big Data is - and isn’t - and what’s driving its incredible momentum. Before describing how NoSQL solutions represent a...
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Understanding public, private & hybrid cloud computing models
Featuring Robert Schneider
Robert will explore the three main cloud computing models -- and will also provide some guidance on identifying the ideal option to meet your organization's own specific needs.
Note: Robert will be beaming in from the USA to deliver this session via Skype. Don't miss the chance to have...
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Making Sense of Amazon Web Services Storage
Featuring Robert Schneider
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has the biggest Infrastructure and Platform-as-a-Service market share. As part of its continual product improvement philosophy, Amazon offers an ever-expanding variety of cloud-based storage selections, including:
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Google App Engine
Featuring Robert Schneider
In this session, Robert Schneider will describe the fundamental components of Google App Engine, including App Engine Services (such as URL fetch, memcache, mail, and so on), Datastore, and the application development/deployment process. He’ll illustrate these concepts through a mixture of...
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Reading the MAGS: Understanding the Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce platforms
Featuring Robert Schneider
Selecting a platform for infrastructure and/or application development can be daunting: there are many choices, and each vendor has taken a different approach to solving challenges such as elasticity, computation, storage, reliability, and security. To make matters even more confusing, these...
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