Vellante inquires about HP's customer concerns with Big Data. Chris suggests the most important concern has been performance when a client wants to scan terabytes of data as quickly as possible. The HP team spends a lot of time working with coders for Hadoop and Vertica to understand latest strategies. Greg notes that when it comes to performance, the main concern is pulling the data in and utilizing plug-ins that allow the team to pull the data out of Oracle. The quick speed at which clients want massive amounts of data is a challenge. Chris suggests that there really isn't "real-time" service, but "near-time." Vellante cited a quip by John Furier: "Real-time" is before you lose the customer." The goal is to shave down microseconds to improve the company's bottom line. Concerning, latency Vellante noted a CEO who suggested: "For every millisecond we can shave off our application performance it's a $100 million dollar to the bottom line a year." Chris and Greg have backgrounds in mathematics, mechanical engineering and physics. They saw computer science as a hobby until it became a passion. Their objective at HP from an engineering perspective is to better the company's business strategy by harnessing the latest technology.