SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/27/12 -- Metamarkets, the leader in big data analytics for web-scale companies, announced today that CEO Michael Driscoll will participate in a panel at AWS re: Invent, Amazon Web Services' largest customer and partner conference dedicated to cloud computing. Taking part in the panel titled "High Performance Computing in the Cloud," moderated by Matt Wood, Product Manager at AWS, Mr. Driscoll will be joined by Dave Fellows, CTO at Green Button, to discuss high performance computing on Amazon Web Services.

As part of this panel, Mr. Driscoll will examine how companies are looking to get insights out of ever-growing amounts of data, much of it generated from mobile and web applications at unprecedented speed and scale. These insights present significant opportunities for smarter pricing, more engaged customers, and greater operational awareness. Mr. Driscoll will describe why Metamarkets developed its own analytics platform and data store after investigating various commercial and open source alternatives. Mr. Driscoll will share lessons learned building a truly scalable and cloud-native Data Science platform leveraging the AWS architecture.

WHO:
Michael Driscoll, CEO of Metamarkets. Follow Michael on Twitter @medriscoll

WHAT:
Panel session during the Big Data + HPC Track, titled "High Performance Computing in the Cloud" at AWS re: Invent

WHEN:
Wednesday, November 28 at 3:25-4:15 p.m. PT

WHERE:
This session is part of the Big Data + HPC Track and will take place in room 3004 at The Venetian-Las Vegas

Taking place at the Venetian-Las Vegas Nov. 28-30, AWS re: Invent 2012 is Amazon Web Services' first global customer and partner conference. With 16 tracks and more than 150 sessions, the event will focus on cloud computing and is designed to educate attendees on how to refine a company's cloud strategy, improve developer productivity, increase application performance and security, and reduce infrastructure costs. For more information and to register for AWS re: Invent, please visit https://reinvent.awsevents.com/.

About Metamarkets
Metamarkets is pioneering a revolutionary approach to big data analytics -- data science-as-a-service. The groundbreaking solution offers business users the power and scale of the cloud to achieve fast insights across Big Data. Metamarkets enables a dramatic increase in revenue, improved user engagement, and the ability to avoid operational surprises by providing its customers with real-time insight across billions of records, while eliminating the need to integrate multiple disparate software solutions. To find out more about the San Francisco-based company's industry-leading analytics platform, please visit www.metamarkets.com.