This document discusses big data trends such as the growth of networked sensors, connected devices, and smartphone users. It then summarizes Intel's investments in big data technologies, including their software, processors, networking, storage and memory products. The document promotes Intel's Distribution for Apache Hadoop software and how it provides security, performance optimizations and support for workloads like data mining, graph analytics and full text search. Real-world customer examples are provided that demonstrate gains in performance, cost savings and new analytics capabilities.