Welcome back to Engineers Unplugged. Today, we talk Big Data with Matthew Brender (@mjbrender EMC) and Hans De Leenheer (@hansdeleenheer Veeam). It's not just a lot of data, it's what you can do with it. For real world examples, and thoughts on where this is all going, listen in:

But wait, there's more! We've got a second awesome episode this week. Do you live out in the middle of nowhere? Connectivity a problem? No more network blues, just build your own. This is geek ingenuity at its best, courtesy of Andy Sholomon (@asholomon Cisco) and Andy Banta (@andybanta), watch and see:

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