As data is becoming a special area of focus for more and more enterprises, some are looking at ways to make it more accessible within the enterprise. It is no longer just the data scientists and the developers that have access to the data. Some are finding that opening up access to data across the enterprise is leading to surprising new ideas and innovations.

Ashish Thusoo, CEO and cofounder of Qubole, Inc., says that cloud infrastructure is enabling the increased access to data. He says that self-service and automation are the key ingredients that make cloud an ideal enabler for data decentralization. “The cloud itself has been built on self-service principles,” he told John Walls and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team.

“This essentially leads to an explosion of how Big Data can be used within the enterprise, who can use it and how enterprises can operationalize them,” Thusoo said. He said that one perk for enterprises is that this can decrease their “operational footprint” and save them expenses and experts and labor.

Opening the doors to data

He said that the while other providers have merely separated storage and compute, Qubole sees those as table stakes. “We have a SaaS model in Qubole. We have added integration to tools, which make access to data much more enterprise-wide,” he explained.

He went on to say, “We are trying to make data a platform within the enterprise, so not just developers can access it, but also other folks can use it.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Spark Summit 2016.

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